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October 2014

October 20, 2014

Doctrine DOES Change

Over the last two weeks, Pope Francis made some courageous steps in dragging the Catholic...

October 15, 2014

Postmodernism Is Dead (Again), and Its Successor Is Worse

Postmodern philosophy saved my faith. Of that there is no doubt, and I've not been...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

You Don’t Know If God Exists…Or Doesn’t Exist

Friend of the blog and Yale philosopher Keith DeRose has a fascinating interview up at...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

God Is Not Eternal

Writing a book on the atonement is like peeling the layers of an onion. Everything...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Five Honest Questions for Process Theology

This post should be properly titled, "Five Questions for Process Theologians," because you cannot actually...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Philosophy and Theology Are Like an Old Married Couple, and They’re Not Getting Divorced [Questions That Haunt]

This week's Question That Haunts Christianity came from Davidson, a 15-year-old high school student: I'm not quite...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Slavoj Žižek and the Illusion of Religion

I'm getting audited, which I can tell you completely sucks. And I'm getting audited for...

September 07, 2013

Who the Heck is Slavoj Žižek?

Who is Slavoj Žižek, I ask? Peter Rollins's father? A homeless man? The most brilliant Continental...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Understanding Ontology

Richard Beck has a useful debunking and re-bunking of Anselm's (in)famous "ontological argument" for the...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

Suspicions that God May Not Exist

Keith DeRose, philospher at Yale and running partner of Miroslav Volf, has a long and...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

God Doesn’t Know What You Think God Knows [Questions That Haunt]

This week, Sam asked us a question about God's omniscience (you can find Sam at...

April 18, 2013

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me

Actually, listen to me. If you haven't gotten enough of me this week, I've taken...

April 06, 2013

Can Postmodern Theology Live in Our Churches? #STN2

That is the overarching question at Subverting the Norm 2, a conference that I'm attending...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Why Does Integral Philosophy Sound Like New Age?

A lot of my friends like integral philosophy. I remember years ago when evangelicals readers...

December 2012

December 08, 2012

Nancey Murphy on the Universe’s Purpose

One of my mentors, Nancey Murphy, weighs in on the Templeton Foundation's new series, Does...

December 05, 2012

How Levinas Overcame Heidegger

David Sessions explains: While Heidegger’s central argument was that the meaning of Dasein is nothing...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Are You an Ignostic?

I received an email from a reader last week claiming that he is an ignostic,...

October 08, 2012

Is It Reasonable To Believe in God?

There's been a lot of talk about Alvin Plantinga's latest book. Plantinga is the most...

August 2012

August 04, 2012

Philosophical Movement in Minimalism

A cool series of minimalist graphics to represent the major philosophical movements in history. For...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

When Religion and Animal Rights Collide

The always outspoken and controversial ethicist, Peter Singer, calls on religions that require ritual slaughter...

June 19, 2012

Philosophy = Learning How to Die

Maybe you've been reading about Pete Rollins's Pyro-Theology. If you like that, you should also...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Postmodernism Is Dead, and Critical Realism Isn’t Its Successor

For years, people have been telling me that postmodernism is dead. The most recent is...

April 2012

April 02, 2012

Reading Gagnon: Getting Ready [Scot]

This week, Scot Miller is blogging about Robert Gagnon's book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice:...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

What’s After Postmodernism?

Geoff Holsclaw attempt an answer: If you missed it, postmodernism died on September 24th, 2011. ...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Eckhart and Apologetics

Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Dominican speculative mystic, is one of my favorite writers. I have...

January 26, 2012

Good Reasons

I have to admit, I was surprised when Tony asked me to guest blog while...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

Christian Philosopher Takes on the New Atheists

Last week, there was a nice write up on Alvin Plantinga in the New York...

August 2011

August 17, 2011

David Carr and St. Augustine – Separated at Birth?

On our 900-mile drive home from Texas yesterday, Courtney and I listened to the better...

August 06, 2011

In Praise of Relativism

One of my favorite fellow relativists, Stanley Fish, recently took to the pages of the...

June 2010

June 11, 2010

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Got an email today from a guy looking to read a paper I wrote on...