The topic of Church unity has been an interest of mine for a long time, but lately it's been on my mind more than usual. I've had several interesting discussions about the topic recently, and have read some articles which have motivated me to think about it in more depth. I'd like to use this post (and a future one) as a sort of blitzkrieg way to ...
I once had a mentor remark that we should, at some point in our spiritual development, form a theology of every part of life. A theology of thinking, a theology of work, a theology of eating, a theology of fellowship. You get the idea. If we are to give our lives fully to God, we are to base our thoughts and actions in every aspect of life on our Christian ...
I was reflecting on the Interaction Problem today and had a few thoughts about it. The problem is an objection against Cartesian Mind/Body Dualism, and goes roughly something like this: we can think of no possible mechanism for how an immaterial soul can interact with a material body. If we can't come up with a mechanism, then it is likely that ...
Some time ago I finished reading "Mind and Cosmos" by Thomas Nagel, philosopher at New York University. I am not going to do a series on the book. If you would like to check out a series on the book far superior to anything I could do (and from a much more scholastic perspective than our blog) check out Edward Feser's series here. Thomas Nagel ...
Several years ago, while reading Chesterton's Orthodoxy, I was impressed by his ability to expose many of the great criticisms of Christianity for their inconsistency. He noted that, prior to becoming a Christian, he would no sooner be swayed by some criticism of Christianity, than a contradictory one would grab his attention. Consider this ...
It's said that we are living in the Information Age. Similar to the Industrial Revolution that brought about the Industrial Age and changed society forever, the Digital Revolution has led us into the Information Age. But I see as much misinformation as I do information. I remember growing up hearing about all the ills of society that technology and progress ...
I thought I would take a step back in this post and give an overview of cosmological arguments in general. As our regular reader (I'm not entirely sure how many "regular" readers we have, but I'd say the probability is in my favor if I use the singular rather than the plural here) knows, Steve has just completed a two-post series on the Kalam Cosmological ...
In the last post we took a look at the history of the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the form of the argument. Now we move on to look at the reasonableness of the premises, properties of the cause of the universe, and some objections to the argument. Supporting the Premises The Universe Began to Exist As explained earlier, it seems that the evidence ...
Austin and I have decided to start a new series covering the historically significant arguments for the existence of God. We recently realized that we've been writing this blog for a while but haven't really covered the more famous arguments for God's existence. This is our attempt to rectify that situation. Cosmological arguments are those that seek ...
In a previous post, I introduced the so-called "Is/Ought Problem," first made famous by David Hume. Hume argued that you cannot get from an "is" to an "ought"-- that is, you cannot argue from the way that things currently are, to the way that things ought to be. Or more generally, you cannot get from factual statements to evaluative statements. ...
We haven't really argued for it in the blog - rather, assumed it - but I think most readers would agree that one's beliefs should be rational. There should be some reason for believing them. To put it another way, there seems to be unspoken agreement that there is an imperative to form beliefs at least in part on the basis of rationality. And that if one's ...
