That’s the title of my most recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: It is an odd thing to explain to other Christians why one moves from one theological tradition to another, since you know (or will eventually discover) that the reasons that seemed so compelling to you seem less than adequate to others. I believe that the reason for this is that each of us approaches these sorts of questions with a plausibility structure, about which we... Read more
I’ve already mentioned on this blog my Synthese response to the perfectly awful piece by philosopher Barbara Forrest (see here, here and here) in which she “critiques” my entire life. (If that sounds weird, you’re right. See my pointed Synthese response to Forrest, “Or We Can Be Philosophers: A Response to Barbara Forrest.”) It turns out that the editors of Synthese have just published a disclaimer in the front matter of the Synthese issue in which Forrest’s piece was published. Here it... Read more
(HT: Thomas Hibbs and Ronny Fritz). My friend, John O’Callaghan, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, offers in the Notre Dame Magazine a thoughtful analysis of the question posed to the participants in the Craig-Harris debate: “Is Good From God?” Writes O’Callaghan: On April 7, a sold-out audience in Notre Dame’s Leighton Concert Hall watched this year’s edition of “The God Debate.”Before a packed house, “New Atheist” Sam Harris and philosopher of religion William Lane Craig... Read more
Here’s a video of the entire debate that took place on April 7, 2011 at the University of Notre Dame Read more
That’s the title of an article I published in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12.3 (Summer 2009). Here’s how it begins (notes omitted): Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university, is a remarkable place with many fine Christian men and women on its faculty and in its student body. It boasts a rich tradition of academic excellence, and it is a privilege for me to be able to make a contribution to that tradition, however modest my... Read more
This morning, Maureen Dowd expresses her disappointment that prior to his performances in China, Dylan allowed the government censors to approve his set list. This meant, according to Dowd, no protest songs from the Voice of Her Generation against the oppressive Chinese government. Too bad Dowd does not know Dylan. If she were even remotely conversant with his body of work, she would have seen that the set lists he chose to play in his first several Chinese shows did... Read more
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My friends Edward Feser and Jay Wesley Richards, both fellow Catholics, are engaged in an online dispute about whether contemporary Intelligent Design theory (ID) runs counter to classical Thomistic understandings of nature and final causality. On this matter, I am with Ed. For I believe that ID, as defended by Michael Behe and William A. Dembski, is a view that in the long run serves to undermine rather than advance the cause of Christian theism. Of course, I see why... Read more
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