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Science Corner: Says Who?

January 7, 2015 by Andy Walsh 4 Comments

In reviewing the science news sites, it was hard to get away from Eric Metaxas's Wall Street Journal op-ed on fine-tuning and what it says about the likelihood of God, and from  the host  of responses to it. I don't have anything to add directly to that conversation; I've already discussed the provability of God and my thoughts haven't shifted much since then. … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Says Who?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: apologetics, Public Square, science corner

Cur Deus Homo. An Advent Devotional

December 20, 2014 by Michael J. Stell, MATS 1 Comment

In the eleventh century, Anselm and theologians like him began to interact with a larger world of ideas, specifically the Muslim theologians who were challenging some of the central tenets of the Christian faith. In the centuries previous, theology had largely been an increasingly ad intra  discussion among the theologians of Christendom. As Muslim writings (and even the occasional Muslim thinker) began their movement into Europe, they began to challenge theological positions which had been taken for granted. It is in … [Read more...] about Cur Deus Homo. An Advent Devotional

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Advent, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, apologetics, C. S. Lewis, Cur Deus Homo, incarnation, Mere Christianity

Re-Examining Lewis’ Trilemma

October 31, 2014 by Michael J. Stell, MATS 2 Comments

In the world of apologetics, there are few arguments more famous than C.S. Lewis' trilemma, which is found in his most popular apologetic work, Mere Christianity. Even classic arguments like Anselm's famous ontological argument for the “being greater than which nothing can be conceived” and Pascal's wager, while still part of the discussion of apologetics, have not in recent years been as popular, or reviled, as Lewis' trilemma. It even spawned a book (Josh McDowell's More Than a Carpenter) and a song (Dana Key's “Liar, … [Read more...] about Re-Examining Lewis’ Trilemma

Filed Under: Christ, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: alister mcgrath, apologetics, C. S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis: A Life, Lewis' “trilemma”, Mere Christianity

Nature as a Christian Apologetic: Intelligent Design Revisited

May 7, 2014 by Tom Ingebritsen 1 Comment

Introduction This is the second of a two-part series addressing the question of whether nature can be used as a Christian apologetic. Natural theology is a discipline that systematically explores the proposed link between God and nature. The traditional approach to natural theology seeks to prove God's existence from what is observed in nature without reference to the Bible or other religious texts. The problem with this approach is that nature is ambiguous with respect to the question of God's existence. In my … [Read more...] about Nature as a Christian Apologetic: Intelligent Design Revisited

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: alister mcgrath, anthropic principle, apologetics, Christianity and science, Christianity and science series, cosmic fine-tuning, creation, evangelism, evolution, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, multiple universes, natural theology, nature

Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

May 2, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Many books on apologetics do well with the arguments, but have little on how to present them. Faith Is Like Skydiving  combines reason with rhetoric, clarity with intellectual depth. It provides a vast array of arguments and a host of images to make those arguments clear and compelling. Intellectually sound and amazingly practical, this terrific book deserves widespread reading. --  James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog and  guest contributor to the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) … [Read more...] about Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

Filed Under: Books, Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: apologetics, dialogue, evangelism, evidence, excerpt, faith, Faith is Like Skydiving, fideism, intervarsity press, Rick Mattson, seekers, skepticism, skeptics, skydiving

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