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  • Metaphysics 101: Creator B.2

    [This post is part of the Philosophy 101 series] A very helpful book, although written a few years back before the Open Theists really came into their own, is The Providence of God by Paul Helm. He deals with many helpful subjects related to God’s providence in a mainly philosophical way. There’s very little Biblical exposition, but…

  • Metaphysics 101: Creator B.1

    [This post is part of the Philosophy 101 series] As I write this, it’s hard to say whether we can cover the other points in one blog, or whether there might be a part C. I decided it sounded cooler to have an “A” and “B” rather than “part 1” and “part 2.” Maybe because…

  • Metaphysics 101: Creator A

    Part of the delay in getting this blog together should be apparent from the title. I mean, how daunting is it to try and unpack this facet of reality in 1500-2000 words or less (which is what I’m trying to limit each of these entries to, since let’s be honest, most people don’t read this…

  • Metaphysics 101: Basic Reality

    What we are dealing with in this essay is a Christian theory of being, which is simply another way of designating one’s theory of reality, called more technically, metaphysics. This is opposed to one’s theory of knowledge which is one’s epistemology. We will be taking the stance that one’s epistemology and one’s metaphysic mutually influence…

  • Philosophy 101: A Brief Outline

    I probably should have posted this yesterday, but for this glorious spring break week, I am makeshifting my fiance’s Panera as an office space and they unfortunately shut off the Wi-Fi during the lunch rush (which is in 20mins). Due to time constraints (and the need for a bit more research) I’m just going to…

  • Philosophy 101: Transcendental Arguments

    As promised, in this essay we’ll need to deal with what we more or less did the last time around. That is, we need to address our more or less assuming the Christian worldview. This necessarily makes this and probably the next essay a bit more apologetical. In a broad sense, this whole blog series…

  • Philosophy 101: Clarifying terms

    Upon doing my homework (for this blog of course, not for school), it came to my attention that there are several things that must be addressed before really moving into crafting a worldview, or a Christian philosophy of life. For starters, we have to unpack a little further the first 2 bullet points from the…

  • Philosophy 101

    Part of me would love to do all the research on the front end and then systematically publish the results here in blog form. Unfortunately, I would probably never start writing if that were the case. So let’s just start by framing the question and discussing possible directions. We’ll move from the vauge to the…

  • Change: Closing Thoughts and Transition

    In some ways, this may seem like an abrupt left turn in terms of blog content. However, I’m not sure how much can really be addressed in terms of how people change. All that would be left is specific application, and apart from case studies, that is not particularly feasible. Too short excurses are in…

  • Change: The Beginning and Source

    [This post is part of the Change series] I suppose if we are going to discuss God in formal terms, I could just send you here and you could wade through a rather dense one page “definition” of God. However you want to look at it though, because of the nature of the assignment for…