Category: Religion
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Why James Anderson is not a Panentheist
The Sudduth conversion prompts Professor Anderson to explain. (via Dave Lull)
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The Sudduth Surge Continues
Before I posted Michael Sudduth's open letter on Saturday, site traffic for the month was averaging between 1600-1900 page views per day; yesterday, however, saw a surge — the Sudduth surge to give it a name — up to 2880, and now, at high noon Tuesday, I'm at 2200. Meanwhile, the industrious Mr. Lull (cybernaut extraordinaire,…
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From Calvin to Krishna
Joe Carter of First Things has more on the Sudduth conversion. There is also a link to James Anderson's review of Sudduth's The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology.
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Belief Change
The indefatigable Dave Lull, argonaut nonpareil of cyberspace, friend and facilitator of many a blogger, pointed me this morning to Triablogue where there is some commentary here and here of a mainly churlish sort on the recent conversion of Michael Sudduth. Comments like those encountered there reinforce me in my view that comboxes are often…
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Michael Sudduth Converts to Vaishnava Vedanta!
The New Year has brought me quite a lot of surprising e-mail, but the following missive wins the surprise prize. (Since Dr. Sudduth has sent his open letter to numerous correspondents, and has posted it on his Facebook page, I feel entitled to post it here in its entirety without his explicit permission.) Comments later, perhaps. A fascinating document.
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John Haldane on Christopher Hitchens
The piece ends as follows (emphasis added): Hitchens is a case worth studying. He is more interesting than Dawkins because evidently more psychologically complex and humanly engaging. If we Catholics are right about God and humanity, why was he so wrong? Or, put another way, what can we learn from his attitude about how to…
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Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism: Notes on the Preface
I now have Alvin Plantinga's new book in my hands. Here are some notes on the preface. Since I agree with almost everything in the preface, the following batch of notes will be interpretive but not critical. Words and phrases enclosed in double quotation marks are Plantinga's ipsissima verba. 1. Plantinga is concerned with the…
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Articles by Alvin Plantinga
Here are twenty articles by Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher who needs no introduction to the readers of this weblog. (HT: Mark Anderson) A Response To Pope John Paul II's Fides Et Ratio Advice To Christian Philosophers An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism Augustinian Christian Philosophy Christian Philosophy at the End of the 20th Century Christian Scholarship: Nature…
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Beckwith, Hitch, and the Foundations of Morality
Here. Excerpt: . . . [Christopher] Hitchens writes that he and other atheists “believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion,” thus implying that he and others have direct and incorrigible acquaintance with a natural moral law that informs their judgments about what counts as an ethical life. But to speak…
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The Limits of Secularism
Call it synchronicity if you like, but a Port Angeles reader points me to this article by Rabbi Lord Sacks which complements the article by Theroux to which I linked in the previous post. Excerpt: So there it is: the evidence that intellectuals have systematically misunderstood the nature of religion and religious observance and have constantly been…
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Intimations of Elsewhere Ignored
A colleague once reported an out-of-body experience. He had been resting on his back on a couch when he came suddenly to view himself from the perspective of the ceiling. He dismissed the experience. He had too much class to use the phrase 'brain fart,' but that is what I suspect he thought it was: a weird…
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Monasticism and the Monks of Mount Athos
Back in April, 60 Minutes had a segment on the monks of Mt. Athos. It was surprisingly sympathetic for such a left-leaning program. What one expects and usually gets from libs and lefties and the lamestream media is religion-bashing — unless of course the religion is Islam, the religion of peace – but the segment in question…
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The Rise of Anti-Western Christianity
An important article.
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What Brought Beckwith Back
Reasons for reversion to Rome.
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Why Science Will Never Put Religion Out of Business
If science can eventually provide what religion promises, then science will eventually put religion out of business. But can science provide what religion promises? I will argue that it cannot. My argument will not assume that any religion, or any combination of religions, is true, wholly or in part. Perhaps no actual or possible religion…