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In Intellectual Neutral
A number of years ago, two books appeared that sent shock waves through the American educational community. The first of these, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, by E.D. Hirsch, documented the fact that large numbers of American college stu...
'Noli Me Tangere': Why John Meier Won't Touch The Risen Lord
John Meier is the most important and influential historical Jesus scholar now writing. [1] When he therefore declares that, as a matter of principle, he qua historian cannot and therefore will not discuss the subject of Jesus' alleged resurrectio...
Time, Eternity, And Eschatology
Time Time is that dimension of reality whose constituent elements are ordered by relations of earlier than, simultaneous with, and later than and are experienced by us as past, present, and future. This much, at least, is common property among almost all disp...
Response to McCall and Balashov
Let me begin by thanking Storrs McCall and Yuri Balashov for commenting on my book Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity (TMR). It’s a genuine honor to have it featured in this meeting of the Philosophy of Time Society. In order to place their criticism...
Ducking Friendly Fire: Davison on the Grounding Objection
Davison first disputes my claim that the Molinist is under no obligation to provide warrant for the assumption that there are true counterfactuals concerning creaturely free choices. [1] But it seems to me that there are two reasons why it is t...
Van Inwagen On Uncreated Beings
Introduction In the opening paragraph of his provocative article “God and Other Uncreated Things,” Peter van Inwagen asks two questions: (1) Is there anything (other than Himself) that God has not created? and (2) Must a Christian take the stateme...
Taking Tense Seriously in Differentiating Past and Future: A Response to Wes Morriston
I According to Wes Morriston, the heart of his paperi is concerned with two claims: (i.) that an endless series of events is a merely potential infinite and (ii.) that this establishes a relevant distinction between the beginningless past (which is suppose...
On Being a World Christian
God is on the move in the world today! All across the face of this planet, like a great tide in its ebb and flow, the kingdom of light is pushing back the frontiers of darkness. We are living at a point of world history of unprecedented expansion of the Christ...
The End of the World
For millennia men have wondered whether the world as we know it will come to an end and if so, how the world will end. In ancient Judaism speculation about the world's end took the form of apocalypticism, the view that God will bring about the end of human...
Presuppositions and Pretensions of the Jesus Seminar
In 1985 a prominent New Testament scholar named Robert Funk founded a think tank in Southern California which he called the Jesus Seminar. The ostensible purpose of the Seminar was to uncover the historical person Jesus of Nazareth using the best methods of sc...