This is my promised review of Craig Keener’s book Miracles. It’s actually a two-volume set, but I’m going to call it a book, for simplicity’s sake. Now my verdict is that I don’t know how to express how mixed my feelings are about this book. I’ll start with the good. Modern miracle stories For a [...]
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Are there any interesting defenses of the moral side of religion?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 2, 2012
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So for months now I’ve been talking about working on this book, and I’m finally at the point where I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made. I’ve got a draft of one chapter and partial drafts of seven other chapters. It’s not a full draft of the book, but I’ve written enough of it [...]
Great Christian thinkers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 27, 2011
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I’ve previously written, in reference to Ed Feser: I agree that Leprechaunology is not a great analogy for the work of Aquinas or Leibniz. But it’s easy to suggest better analogies: how about Spinozism or Hegelianism? I’d be surprised if Feser took either of those doctrines terribly seriously. The dirty little secret of philosophy is [...]
I’ll take Alvin Plantinga over John Haught any day
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 22, 2011
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Jerry Coyne, last week: Alvin Plantinga, like John Haught, is regarded as a sophisticated and serious theologian. (Although he’s formally a Christian philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, he’s published lots of books defending God, engaging in apologetics, and so on, so there’s little doubt he qualifies as a theologian.) This made me wince. [...]
Plantinga’s inexcusable faults (review of Where The Conflict Really Lies)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 21, 2011
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I don’t expect Plantinga’s fans to ever totally agree with my negative assessment of Plantinga. My disagreements with them are too big. For one thing, I assume most of Plantinga’s fans think that what academic philosophers do is generally worthwhile, where as I don’t think that. But I hope that even fans of academic philosophy [...]