by Collin Brendemuehl | Apr 9, 2019 | Apologetics
It’s an old post (“Playing The Mystery Card (incl. McGrath vs Dawkins) from my book Believing Bullshit”) on Patheos, from 2014. As Dr. Law has recycled it on Twitter I thought it deserved appropriate interaction. Dr. Law’s target concept is the question of mystery. In...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Feb 27, 2014 | Christianity and Society, Ethics
My life, like the life of everyone else, is filled with contradiction and error. The easy thing is to live the selfish life. But even the selfish life can mean different things. There is the selfish life of the left that tells us to live for today’s pleasure. ...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Feb 26, 2014 | Theology
Molinism is a type of philosophical theology. It is a structure that wraps itself around Scripture in an attempt to make sense of the content. That is not a bad thing in and of itself. We employ our methods of reason for interpreting the world around us and the...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Feb 13, 2014 | Christianity and Society, Theology
Sherif Gergis recently provided his perspective on “Reason and Revelation: Why Christians Need Philosophy”. In his piece he addresses the problem of national morality and social change with respect to the Christian world view. To accomplish this he asked three...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Jan 23, 2014 | Essay
Introduction Peter Boghossian’s recent book A Manual for Creating Atheists has caused a bit of a stir. This new atheist-type has proposed combination of arguments and strategies for motivating people to leave religious belief behind. He does not care of it is...