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Category Archives: Philosophy
Remembering Dr. Wynn Kenyon (1948-2012)
This past weekend I attended the funeral of my beloved professor and mentor, Wynn Kenyon, who taught Philosophy at Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi for three decades. It was Kenyon who taught me how to think critically and introduced me … Continue reading
Hunter and Plantinga to Visit Taylor University
In the span of one week, two noteworthy scholars will be visiting Taylor University. James Davison Hunter will speak for the National Student Leadership Conference, hosted by Taylor this weekend. He will arrive tomorrow and will meet with several faculty … Continue reading
A Former Atheist’s Near Death Experience
I’ve become increasingly interested in near death experiences, and the ones that interest me most are those involving atheists. Here is one of the more well-known accounts by a former atheist, Howard Storm, who was an art professor at Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Theology
Tagged atheism, Howard Storm, My Descent into Death, near death experience
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Theism, Atheism, and the Significance of our Lives
One of the traditional complaints about atheism is that it offers no grounds for believing that life is meaningful in any significant sense. Many old school atheists seemed to acknowledge this point. For example, Bertrand Russell grants that the eventual … Continue reading
To the God Who Might Be There
During my first year of graduate school I went through a brief crisis of faith, largely due to the influence of a particular professor who was especially adamant in his religious skepticism. In fact, you might say he was—pardon the … Continue reading
An Atheist Meets God
Anyone familiar with the philosophical history of atheism knows that twentieth century British scholar A. J. Ayer is one of the most prominent atheists of the modern period. He was a leading figure in the movement known as Logical Positivism, … Continue reading
Hell and the Undermining of Heavenly Happiness
Lately, I’ve been pondering some of Thomas Talbott’s arguments against the traditional doctrine of hell (in his 1990 Faith and Philosophy essay “The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment”). He makes many interesting points, both in criticism of eternal conscious torment and … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Theology
Tagged conditional immortalism, eternal conscious torment, heaven, hell
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Solving the Euthyphro Problem
Among the issues debated between theists and atheists is the question of God’s relation to ethics. Many theists, including myself, maintain that without God there is no foundation for ethics. Not only does atheism fail to provide any ultimate motivation … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged atheism, divine command ethics, Euthyphro, Socrates, theism, Thomas Aquinas
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The Making of Atheists
My current book project is on the subject of atheism. Though there have been plenty of books on this topic the last few years, both by atheists (the “new atheists” as they’ve come to be called) and their critics, nearly … Continue reading
