podcast 156 – Dr. J.R. Daniel Kirk on A Man Attested by God – Part 2
If Jesus fulfills predictions about Yahweh, does this mean that he’s Yahweh?
podcast 155 – Dr. J.R. Daniel Kirk on A Man Attested by God – Part 1
Do Matthew, Mark, and Luke discreetly but clearly imply that Jesus is God?
Divine fluidity
Sommer’s theory of divine fluidity: a solution to the problem of anthropomorphic language in the Hebrew Bible.
podcast 154 – Mormons seeing the man behind the curtain – Part 2
A tightly knit religious group can ignore outsiders’ criticisms indefinitely. But when insiders…
podcast 153 – Mormons seeing the man behind the curtain – Part 1
Joseph Smith made some bold claims, many of which
podcast 152 – Dr. Michael Rota on evidence for the Christian God
Is there evidence for God’s existence?
podcast 151 – Dr. Michael Rota on Pascal’s Wager
What if you believe in Christianity, and it’s false? Have you lost much, really?
Can Kant refer to God?
I am plodding on with Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief, which I strongly recommend. He is committed to the Christian (and Jewish and Muslim) belief that not only that there is such a being as God, but also that we are able to address him in prayer, refer to him, think and talk about him, and predicate properties of him. This means using unique descriptions like… Read More »Can Kant refer to God?
podcast 150 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 2
In this second part of my conversation with Dr. Larry Hurtado about his book Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, we discuss the distinctive “bookishness” of early Christianity
Are all religions the same?
I have been working through Alvin Plantinga’s excellent (but frustrating) book Warranted Christian Belief, and I am particularly intrigued by his critique of the work of theologian John Hick. Hick began his spiritual odyssey as a traditional, orthodox Christian, accepting what I have been calling ‘Christian belief’. He was then struck by the fact that there are other religions in which the claims of orthodox Christianity—trinity,… Read More »Are all religions the same?
“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
A question from the Facebook group a few weeks ago: …One model of the Trinity that I’ve heard articulated–call it “paterderivationism”–says that the way in which the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are homoousios is the same way in which Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus may be called “homoousios”: they share the same kind of nature, though… not the same instance of that nature. According to… Read More »“paterderivationism,” monotheism, and “mono-theos-ism”
the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
Here’s part of a conversation I had recently with a guy in a Facebook group who when it comes to theology consumes almost only evangelical apologetics sources. I’m going to call him “Tim” here. The conversation illustrates a blind spot that I often run into, a blind spot which results from people who study apologetics being insufficiently trained in logic. All the non-theological points I… Read More »the apologetics blind-spot on numerical identity
podcast 148 – Dr. Daniel McKaughan on faith – Part 2
If faith is not simply believing that some doctrine is true, what is it?
podcast 147 – Dr. Daniel McKaughan on faith – Part 1
Is faith, as Mark Twain quipped, believing what you know ain’t so?
Exegetical neutrality
I am making slow (but sure) progress on The Same God? Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures. My background is in the philosophy of language, and particularly the theory of reference and singular terms. The research for this book has taken me to some strange places I never expected to visit (and never really knew about before). One of those is hermeneutics,… Read More »Exegetical neutrality
podcast 145 – ‘Tis Mystery All: the Immortal dies!
God is immortal. But Jesus died. Does it follow that Jesus is not God?
Does God have a body?
Dale writes: A self is being which is in principle capable of knowledge, intentional action, and interpersonal relationships. A god is commonly understood to be a sort of extraordinary self. In the Bible, the god Yahweh (a.k.a. “the LORD”) commands, forgives, controls history, predicts the future, occasionally appears in humanoid form, enters contracts with human beings, and sends prophets, whom he even allows to argue… Read More »Does God have a body?
podcast 144 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 2
Is Jesus both mutable and immutable?