Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011): one of the most famous of the “new atheists”; image by Surian Soosay (12-16-11) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license]
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Alphabetical by Author
ATHEISM, CRITIQUES OF
Atheist Demands for “Empirical” Proofs of God (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
Atheism: More Rational & Scientific than Christianity? (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
On Critiquing Atheist “Deconversion” Stories (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
Atheism: the Faith of “Atomism” (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
The Atheism of the Gaps (Stephen M. Barr, 1995)
The Presumptuousness of Atheism (Paul Copan, 1997)
Cosmology – A Religion for Atheists? [Hawking] (William Lane Craig)
Theistic Critiques Of Atheism (William Lane Craig, 2007)
Is Unbelief Culpable? (William Lane Craig, 2010)
Straw men and terracotta armies [atheists & the cosmological argument] (Edward Feser, 2009)
Grow up or shut up [atheists & the cosmological argument] (Edward Feser, 2011)
The road from atheism (Edward Feser, 2012)
Clarke on the stock caricature of First Cause arguments [atheists & the cosmological argument] (Edward Feser, 2014)
Repressed Knowledge of God (+ Part II) (Edward Feser, 2015)
There’s no such thing as “natural atheology” (Edward Feser, 2015)
My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism: A Discussion between Antony Flew and Gary Habermas (2004)
Answer to an Atheist: Are Humans Nothing More Than Bodies? (Hank Hanegraaff, 2000)
Christianity and Pagan Literature (James Hannam, 2003)
Ten quick responses to atheist claims (John Lennox, 2014)
Atheists and the Quest for Objective Morality (Chad Meister, 2010)
God on the Brain (Angus Menuge, 2010)
Ghosts for the Atheist (Robert Velarde, 2009)
The Psychology of Atheism (Paul C. Vitz)
CONCILIATORY EFFORTS / COMMON GROUND
Secular Humanism and Christian Humanism: Seeking After Common Ground (Dave Armstrong and Sue Strandberg, 2001)
Can Atheists be Saved? Are They All “Evil”? (Dave Armstrong, 2003)
Constructive, Enjoyable Atheist-Christian Discussion Perfectly Possible (Dave Armstrong, 2007)
16 Atheists / Agnostics and Me: Sounds Like a Good Ratio! Further Adventures at an Atheist “Bible Study” Group (Dave Armstrong, 2010)
Clarifications re: Atheist “Reductio” Paper (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
NT on God-Rejecters vs. Open-Minded Agnostics (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
Legitimate Atheist Anger (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
My Enjoyable Dinner with Six Atheist Friends (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
EVIL, PROBLEM OF
Treatise on the Problem of Evil (Dave Armstrong, 2002)
Some Christian Replies to the Problem of Evil as Set Forth by Atheists (Dave Armstrong, 2006)
Dialogue #2 with an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (Dave Armstrong vs. “drunken tune”, 2006)
Dialogue #3 with an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (Dave Armstrong vs. John W. Loftus, 2006)
“Logical” Problem of Evil: Alvin Plantinga’s Decisive Refutation [Dave Armstrong, 2006]
Is the “Strong” Logical Argument From Evil Largely Discredited If Not Dead, Or Alive & Well? (Atheist Confusion) (Dave Armstrong, 2006)
Why Did a Perfect God Create an Imperfect World? (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
How Can God be Just and Ordain Evil? (John A. Battle, 1996)
The Connection-Building Theodicy (Robin Collins, 2012)
Debate: God, Morality, and Evil (William Lane Craig vs. Kai Nielsen, Feb. 1991)
Freedom and the Ability to Choose Evil (William Lane Craig, 2008)
Animal Suffering (William Lane Craig, 2009)
The “Evil god” Objection (William Lane Craig, 2011)
Problem of Evil without Objective Moral Values (William Lane Craig, 2011)
Molinism and the Soteriological Problem of Evil Once More (William Lane Craig, 2011)
On the Goodness of God (William Lane Craig, 2012)
The Problem of Evil Once More (William Lane Craig, 2012)
Gratuitous Evil and Moral Discernment (William Lane Craig, 2013)
God’s Permitting Natural Evil (William Lane Craig, 2013)
God’s Permitting Horrific Evils (William Lane Craig, 2014)
Law’s “evil-god challenge” (+ Part II) (Edward Feser, 2010-2011)
The Logical Problem of Evil: Mackie and Plantinga (Daniel Howard-Snyder)
How an Unsurpassable Being Can Create a Surpassable World (Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder, 1994)
The Real Problem of No Best World (Frances and Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1996)
Transworld Sanctity and Plantinga’s Free Will Defense (Daniel Howard-Snyder & John O’Leary-Hawthorne, 1998)
Is Theism Compatible with Gratuitous Evil? (Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder, 1999)
God, Evil, and Suffering (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1999)
On Rowe’s Argument from Particular Horrors (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 2001)
Grounds for Belief in God Aside, Does Evil Make Atheism More Reasonable than Theism? (Daniel Howard-Snyder & Michael Bergmann, 2001)
Theodicy (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 2006)
The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy (Peter van Inwagen, 1988)
The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence (Peter van Inwagen, 1991)
Probability and Evil (Peter van Inwagen, 1997)
The Argument from Particular Horrendous Evils (Peter van Inwagen, 2001)
The Problem of Evil: Preliminaries (Robert C. Koons, 1998)
Tough-minded and Tender-hearted Responses to the Problem of Evil (Robert C. Koons, 1998)
The Free Will Defense (Robert C. Koons, 1998)
God’s Answer to Human Suffering (Peter Kreeft, 1986)
Evil (Peter Kreeft, 1988)
Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn’t, or at least isn’t good-hearted? (Glenn Miller, 1999)
Theodicy (+ Part II / Part III / Part IV / Part V) (Glenn Miller, 2000)
Christian Theism and the Problem of Evil (Michael L. Peterson, 1978)
The Perfect Goodness of God (Alvin Plantinga, 1962)
The Probablistic Argument from Evil (Alvin Plantinga, 1978)
Degenerate Evidence and Rowe’s New Evidential Argument from Evil (Alvin Plantinga, 1998)
A New Free Will Defense (Alexander R. Pruss, 2002)
Limiting God to solve the problem of evil (Alexander R. Pruss, 2012)
The argument from partial theodicy (Alexander R. Pruss, 2015)
Why Does God Allow Suffering? (Lee Strobel, 2001)
The Problem of Observed Pain: A Study of C. S. Lewis on Suffering (Robert Walter Wall, 1983)
“GOOD: PROBLEM OF”
Dialogue w an Atheist on the “Problem of Good” (Dave Armstrong vs. Mike Hardie, 2001)
HELL: “PROBLEM” OF
Friendly Discussion on Presuppositions and Basic Differences (Particularly, Hell), With an Agnostic (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski, 2005)
Dialogue on Hell and God’s Justice, Part II (Dave Armstrong, 2009)
Debate: Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? (William Lane Craig vs. Ray Bradley, 1994)
Bradley on Hell (William Lane Craig, 2007)
Do the Damned in Hell Accrue Further Punishment? (William Lane Craig, 2008)
Reasonable Damnation: How Jonathan Edwards Argued for the Rationality of Hell (Bruce W. Davidson, 1995)
Hell (Peter Kreeft, 1988)
What kind of a choice is THAT?!: “Love me or Burn”? (Glenn Miller)
A Traditionalist Response to John Stott’s Arguments for Annihilationism (Robert A. Peterson, 1994)
Fallacies in the Annihilationism Debate? (Robert A. Peterson, 2007)
The Dark Side of Eternity: Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment (Robert A. Peterson, 2007)
HIDDENNESS: DIVINE
Why Isn’t the Evidence Clearer? (John A. Bloom, 1994)
The Argument from Divine Hiddenness (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1996)
Hiddenness of God (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 2006)
Why Doesn’t God Make Christianity Clearer? (+ Part II / Part III / Part IV / Part V) (Glenn Miller, 2000)
Coercion and the Hiddenness of God (Michael J. Murray, 1993)
INQUISITION AND CRUSADES
[see many links on my Inquisition, Crusades, and “Catholic Scandals” Index Page]
MORAL “DIFFICULTIES” OF GOD’S (OR HIS FOLLOWERS’) BEHAVIOR IN THE BIBLE / “DIVINE GENOCIDE”
The Judgment of Nations: Biblical Passages and Commentary (Dave Armstrong, 2001)
Debate on the Supposed Irrationality and Immorality of the Psalms (+ Part II / Part III / Part IV) (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski, 2004)
Did God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart, or Positively Ordain Evil? (Dave Armstrong vs. “DagoodS”, 2006)
Reflections on Original Sin and God’s Prerogative to Judge and Kill as He Wills (Sometimes, Entire Nations) (Dave Armstrong, 2007)
“How Can God [in the OT] Order the Killing and Massacre of Innocents?” [Amalekites, etc.] (Dave Armstrong, 2007)
Did Moses (and God) Sin In Judging the Midianites (Numbers 31)? (+ Part II) (Dave Armstrong, 2008)
Difficulties in Understanding God’s Judgment on Heathen Nations (and other “Problem Passages” in the OT) (Dave Armstrong, 2009)
Jephthah’s Burnt Offering Sacrifice of His Daughter (Judges 11:30-40): Did God Command or Sanction It? (Dave Armstrong, 2009)
Exodus 20:5: God’s “Punishing” or Descendants “to the Third and Fourth Generation”: Proof of an “Unjust” God? (Dave Armstrong, 2010)
Israel as God’s Agent of Judgment (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites: Divinely-Mandated Genocide or Corporate Capital Punishment? (Paul Copan)
Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? The New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics (Paul Copan)
Hateful, Vindictive Psalms? (Paul Copan, 2008)
Slaughter of the Canaanites (William Lane Craig, 2007)
The “Slaughter” of the Canaanites Re-visited (William Lane Craig, 2011)
Once More: The Slaughter of the Canaanites (William Lane Craig, 2013)
How Could a Good God Sanction the Stoning of a Disobedient Child? (Hank Hanegraaff, 2007)
Are Generational Curses Biblical? (Hank Hanegraaff, 2008)
The Inspiration of the Hebrew Bible and the Morality of God’s Commands (Peter van Inwagen, 2010)
Killing the Canaanites: A Response to the New Atheism’s “Divine Genocide” Claims (Clay Jones, 2010)
OT Passages on what God considers worthy of ‘vengeance’ (Glenn Miller)
Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant? (Glenn Miller)
Is God Always Wrathful, Vengeful, Jealous, and Angry? (Glenn Miller, 2000)
Shouldn’t the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes? (Glenn Miller, 2001)
What about God’s cruelty against the Midianites? [Numbers 31] (Glenn Miller, 2001)
Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicitous? (Glenn Miller, 2003)
Why couldn’t Israel take in the Amalekites like they did foreign survivors in Deut 20? (Glenn Miller, 2006)
Was God being evil when He killed all the firstborn in Egypt? (Glenn Miller, 2009)
Did you overstate the case for Amalekites being accepted as immigrants into Israel? (Glenn Miller, 2010)
How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites? (Glenn Miller, 2013)
NAZI HOLOCAUST AND THE CHURCH / ALLEGED “HITLER’S POPE”
Jewish Recognition of Pope Pius XII’s Support
Exposing Hitler’s Pope and Its Author (William Doino, Jr.)
In Defence of Pius XII and His Aid to the Jews (Rabbi David Dalin)
The Tragic Heroism of Pope Pius XII (George W. Rutler)
The Catholic Church and the Nazis (website)
Pope Pius XI [not Pius XII] and the Nazis (Jimmy Akin)
Hitler and Christianity (Edward Bartlett-Jones, 2009)
Was Hitler a Christian? (Dinesh D’Souza)
Pope Pius XII and the Jews (Sr. Margherita Marchione)
Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church (Karol Jozef Gajewski)
Nazis and Church Locked Horns Early (Zenit)
Hitler’s Pope? (Donald Devine)
Pius XII, co-conspirator in tyrannicide (George Weigel)
Cornwell’s Cheap Shot at Pius XII (Peter Gumpel)
Did Pius XII Remain Silent? (Fr. William Saunders)
Goldhagen v. Pius XII (Ronald Rychlak)
Blaming the Wartime Pope (Kenneth L. Woodward)
800,000 Saved by Pius XII’s Silence (Donald DeMarco)
Pope Pius XII’s Good Fight (Michael Coren)
“NEW ATHEISTS”
Critique of Atheist John W. Loftus’ “Deconversion” Story (Dave Armstrong, 2006)
Atheist John Loftus Reacts to My Analysis of His “Deconversion” (Dave Armstrong, 2006)
John Loftus’ Deconversion & Feuds w Atheists (Dave Armstrong, 2015)
What Michael Behe actually wrote in Time [about Richard Dawkins] (Michael J. Behe, 2007)
Richard Dawkins’ Argument for Atheism in The God Delusion (William Lane Craig, 2007)
Dawkins’ “Central Argument” Once More (William Lane Craig, 2008)
Dawkins’ Delusion (William Lane Craig, 2008)
Has Hawking Eliminated God? (William Lane Craig, 2011)
Curiosity With Stephen Hawking (William Lane Craig, 2011)
The New Philistinism (Edward Feser, 2010)
A clue for Jerry Coyne (Edward Feser, 2011)
Why can’t these guys stay on topic? Or read? [Jerry Coyne] (Edward Feser, 2015)
Red herrings don’t go to heaven either [Jerry Coyne] (Edward Feser, 2015)
From Rage to Faith: Peter Hitchens’ The Rage Against God (Joseph E. Gorra, 2011)
The Plight of the New Atheism: A Critique (Gary R. Habermas, 2008)
Village Atheists with Vengeance (C. Wayne Mayhall, 2007)
NON-BELIEF, ARGUMENT FROM
Dialogue on the Argument From Non-Belief (ANB) (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer & Dr. Ted Drange, 2003)
Reply to Atheist John Loftus’ “Outsider Test of Faith” Series (Dave Armstrong, 2007)
OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE: MISCELLANEOUS
What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel? (Glenn Miller)
Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature? (Glenn Miller, 1996)
How I would decide between conflicting revelations? (+ Part II) (Glenn Miller, 1997)
SEX SCANDALS (CATHOLIC)
[see many links on my Inquisition, Crusades, and “Catholic Scandals” Index Page]
SINNERS / HYPOCRISY IN THE CHURCH
[see many links on my Inquisition, Crusades, and “Catholic Scandals” Index Page]
SLAVERY AND CHRISTIANITY
The issue of ‘slavery’ in the NT/Apostolic world (esp. Paul) (Glenn Miller, 1999)
Does God Condone Slavery in the Bible? (Glenn Miller, 2004)
Christianity and the Slavery Question (Arthur Rupprecht, 1963)
[see many more links on my Inquisition, Crusades, and “Catholic Scandals” Index Page]
SOUL / CONSCIOUSNESS / LIFE AFTER DEATH / DUALISM / GENERAL RESURRECTION
The Possibility of Resurrection (Peter van Inwagen, 1978)
Resurrection (Peter van Inwagen, 1998)
The Case for Life After Death (Peter Kreeft)
Is there evidence for the existence of the “soul”? (Glenn Miller, 1997)
Is there evidence for the existence of “spirits” and some “spiritual dimension”? (Glenn Miller, 2001)
WOMEN, CHRISTIAN / BIBLICAL VIEW OF
Women: The Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus (Glenn Miller, 1996)
Women: The Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle (Glenn Miller, 1996)
Women: The Data From the Monarchy Literature (Glenn Miller, 1996)
Women: The Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature (Glenn Miller, 1996)
“Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!” (Glenn Miller, 1997)
Are the laws in the OT about rape and virginity indicative of a God who is unfair to women? (Glenn Miller, 2001)
Does female “pain-prone” reproductive physiology indicate that God apparently hates women? (Glenn Miller, 2001)
Women in the Bible: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes [22 Objections] (Glenn Miller, 2001)
Did God treat women’s bodies as property, in the “rape” of David’s concubines by Absalom? (Glenn Miller, 2001)
Women: The Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature (Glenn Miller, 2004)
Women in the Bible and Early Church (Glenn Miller, 2004)
Women’s Roles in the Early Church (Glenn Miller, 2005)
“Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?” (Glenn Miller, 2006)
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