Interview with William Dembski: The End of Christianity
William Dembski, who was recently elected as the new Vice President of the EPS, released his latest book earlier this month from Broadman & Holman Academic, titled, The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World (2009). We interviewed Dembski about his book and its implications for Christian work on the "problem of evil."What’s the

Philosophia Christi (Winter 2009): Religious Pluralism
The Winter 2009 issue of Philosophia Christi features a dialog on "religious pluralism" with scholars Keith Yandell, Paul Moser and Paul Knitter.Here is a preview of what to expect. Subscribe Now!!!Keith Yandell, "Religious Pluralism: Reductionist, Exclusivist, and Intolerant?"Abstract: There is a general recognition that there are various self-identifying religions. Many people find the idea that these religions differ in significant ways altoget

God, Evidence and the Will
Thomas Nagel, an atheist philosopher at New York University said something very revealing in his book The Last Word:In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and religious institutions, in virtue of their objectionable moral doctrines, social policies, and political influence. Nor am I referring to the association of many religious beliefs with superstition and the acceptance of evident empirical falsehood

Aseity, Fictionalism and Moral Values
At ReasonableFaith.org, I recently received a questions about the topic of divine aseity in light of my understanding of fictionalism and abstract objects:What are morals according to the fictionalist? Can the fictionalist hold to objective morality without having to be a command theorist? If not, then how can the fictionalist account for arbitrary commands from God (e.g., torturing little children is okay if God commands it to be so)?My second question is: can we interpret John 1:3 with a quantifying restriction. That is, can we interpret John saying something like the following: "Through him all thin

Why Universals Matter
I just returned from a trip to Eastern Europe where I have been going for 15 years. As usual the trip involved giving lectures at state and national universities in addition to presenting a paper at two conferences on Charles Darwin. I lectured on moral philosophy with political implications and worldviews & the arts. It is rather exciting to see young university students in this rather atheistic context make connections that, for the most part, have been ignored or denied by those in the academy. At one point in the lecture titled “Worldviews and the Arts” we discussed Paul Gaugin’s work titled Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Do We Go? The question this posed was ho