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Apologetics Training - Advice to Christian Apologists Part 1

In 1983, when Alvin Plantinga delivered his inaugural lecture as the John O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, he chose as his topic "Advice to Christian Philosophers." Today I've chosen as my subject the related, but somewh...

Divine Forgiveness As Legal Pardon

  The distinction between personal forgiveness and legal pardon is well-known and widely recognized in the literature on forgiveness.[1]  In this paper I wish to explore the analogy between divine forgiveness and legal pardon, particularly as it exi...

Ben Witherington III reviews Atonement and the Death of Christ and interviews William Lane Craig

Review It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a good book on the atonement. The last one that I found really stimulating and challenging was Jurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God, and it came out 40 some years ago! As it turns out, my old...

God and Abstract Objects

Central to classical theism is the conception of God as the sole ultimate reality, the creator of all things apart from Himself.  Such a doctrine is rooted in Hebrew-Christian Scripture.  To select but one text, in the prologue of the Gospel of John,...

Easter (part 3)

postmortem appearances,

Creation, Providence, and Miracle

Creatio Ex Nihilo "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1.1). With majestic simplicity the author of the opening chapter of Genesis thus differentiated his viewpoint, not only from that of the ancient creation myths of Israel's ne...

Is Penal Substitution Incoherent?: An Examination Of Mark Murphy's Criticisms

Introduction In setting the stage for his own revisionary atonement theory, Mark Murphy criticizes the traditional Reformation theory of penal substitution as being conceptually incoherent. Our interest here is not in Murphy’s theory of the atonement of...

“Atheism vs. Christianity”

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...

Advice to European Christian Apologists

In 1983, when Alvin Plantinga delivered his inaugural lecture as the John O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, he chose as his topic 'Advice to Christian Philosophers.' Today I have chosen as my subject the related, bu...