Posted in atheism, faith, science on 27 February 2007 | 62 Comments »
Having spent a bit of time talking about Dawkin’s ‘God Delusion‘ (see here and here), I’ll pass on a review of the book by Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame. Plantinga is a fairly widely respected Christian philosopher (although I find his Calvinism a bit baffling given his resistance to [...]
Posted in science on 20 February 2007 | 3 Comments »
They say you shouldn’t post on things you don’t understand but, what the heck… I’ll trust those who know better to correct me if what follows is wrong.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of John Polkinghorne, a particle physicist turned theologian who is interested in the integration of these two fields of knowledge. He’s [...]
Posted in eschatology, providence, theology on 13 February 2007 | 8 Comments »
We’ve had some interesting conversations in class over the past few days regarding the classic debate about God’s knowledge/control of the current and future events and the meaningful choices that we have to make. The conversation ultimate turns on two elements of the Bible’s presentation of how God runs the world: God is sovereign, [...]
Posted in pluralism, public religion, theology on 5 February 2007 | 9 Comments »
Having recently been interested in the possibility of holding religious convictions without considering those who don’t share them to be inferior I was intrigued by the following article that asks whether the very existence of religious beliefs leads inevitably to conflict. Meic Pearse, an author whose insights I have appreciated on other topics (see [...]
