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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Glenn Greenwald’s With Liberty and Justice for Some (a review)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 22, 2011
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Glenn Greenwald’s With Liberty and Justice for Some is an extremely important book. I don’t exaggerate when I say it’s a book everyone in the United States should read, something I don’t normally say about even my favorite books. Greenwald makes the case in the United States today, rule of law is disappearing. Instead, we [...]
Review: Re-reading Sam Harris’ The End of Faith
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 21, 2011
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Sam Harris seems to catch a special kind of flak among atheists. Unlike Dawkins, he doesn’t just have people of the Chris Mooney variety complaining that he shouldn’t criticize religion, ever. And unlike Christopher Hitchens, it isn’t really about specific political positions Harris has taken, because Harris hasn’t actually said very much about specific political [...]
Review: Rob Bell’s Love Wins
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 30, 2011
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I knew I was going to like Rob Bell’s Love Wins from the moment I saw the back cover (at right, but I’m typing out the text in case the picture isn’t legible): “God loves us.God offers us everlasting life by grace, freely, through no merit on our part.” Unless you do not respond the [...]
Review of Gary Gutting’s What Philosophers Know, part 3
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 17, 2011
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This last part of the review (see parts one and two) is mostly for the sake of completeness. Thus, it will be shorter, but I’ll be talking about something a lot of people care about: the status of our scientific beliefs. At the end of his chapter on Plantinga, Gutting makes a claim that he [...]