Category: Philosophy
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Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach
When break comes, I usually try to tone down the reading, but to keep in the rhythm, I’ll usually have a small stack of books with me. Most of these are ones that are unrelated to anything else I’m studying, so it’s kind of like a break (but not entirely). This winter break, one of…
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Gladiator and Ethical Paradox
For research on my thesis, I just finished working through Brian Godawa’s Hollywood Worldviews. I may post a more thorough review at some point, but in one of the closing chapters on spirituality in the movies, he makes a very good point about what many people talk about today concerning non-religious ethics. He quotes at…
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Understanding A Car Crash
Let’s start with a question: Should we start a parent murdering ministry? This may seem like an extremely odd, severely misguided question. So, let’s fill it out with some context… It comes from a point in yesterday’s sermon at The Village Church that Matt Chandler was illustrating. The point being that arguing from pure pragmatics is…
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The Atheist’s Bible
The other day, I was thinking to myself how helpful it would be for my studies if there was an equivalent Bible, but for atheists. Maybe there is such a thing when considered conceptually, but there certainly isn’t an authoritative written source that all atheists agree to be normative. Or is there? Honestly it would…
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Atonement: Framework
The method I’m outlining here, is like that of filling in a jigsaw puzzle. Once again, it comes from the book to the right, and the outline here comes from their chapter covering the same topic. Interestingly, much of what we need to know about the atonement comes from the early chapters of Genesis. From…
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What Every Atheist Knows: Authority
It still may strike some as rather arrogant to presume to declare “what every atheist knows.” It certainly would be arrogant, were not for the authority on which the claim is based. Being a Christian entails a commitment to the authority of God and His word. Before even getting an argument off the ground, a…
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What Every Atheist Knows: Practice
Picking up where yesterday left off, it is still left to defend that in principle, every atheist knows that God exists. The point the atheist is striving to make is that they do not believe that fact to be true. However, it is possible to know something to be true, yet believe that proposition to…
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What Every Atheist Knows: Thought
Based on some of the dialogue from the Answer a Fool post, I think it might be helpful to make explicit some of the assumptions I bring to the table in rational argumentation. Since that post (and the one preceding it) got their jump start from Bahnsen’s book, it might be best to return there as he…
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The Myth of Neutrality in Psychological Studies
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] The idea that one can proceed neutrally with respect to a field of study has been very much in vogue, not just recently, but for probably as long as most of us can remember. Few if any people question the idea of neutrality in methodology,…
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Psychological Hermeneutics
[This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] In their book Modern Psychotherapies, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman are confident they is no unifying philosophy undergirding the various approaches to counseling derived from the field of psychology (see pg 30-31ff). My question here is, “Is this an accurate assessment?” Much of what I might…