May

27

False dilemmas… an evangelical problem

May 27, 2008 | 13 Comments

Posted by ben hind · Filed Under Logic, Christian Philosophy, Theology 

Wikipedia has a good article on false dilemmas if you get stuck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
False dilemmas are things I hear a lot of in the evangelical world. Black and white statements with no middle ground. Taking two things and putting them against each other, when they were never meant to be mutually exclusive. Sometimes it’s done with […]

May

20

How I became a Christian… through Philosophy

May 20, 2008 | 6 Comments

Posted by ben hind · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Personal 

I can’t remember exactly when I began my love-affair with philosophy. I had just come out of a long and hard struggle with depression in my mid-teens and was ready to get my life back on track. After leaving secondary school (high school) with only one qualification in music, my only passion, I was struggling […]

May

19

Christian Philosophy?

May 19, 2008 | 5 Comments

Posted by ben hind · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Prolegomena 

I love philosophy. I can’t express just how much it has affected me as a person, especially in my faith. The one thing that someone can say that frustrates me is, ‘you can’t prove Gods existence, you just have to have faith’. I don’t think there is a more destructive statement when it comes to […]

Apr

8

Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People

April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Christian Philosophy 

Interesting blog post by Alex Pruss at Problogion (great name!):
A traditional formulation of the problem of evil is to ask: “Why do bad things happen to good people and good things to bad people?” An interesting feature of our discourse–both academic and popular–about the problem of evil is that the second part is not much […]

Apr

6

Scot McKnight’s “Keys to the Kingdom” online

April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Eschatology 

Scot had done a series of blog entries on the relationship of the kingdom of God to the Church and now it is online in one pdf document if you want to read it.  I haven’t read it all, but skimmed it, and it looks good.  Check it out if you want at:
http://www.vanguardchurch.com/mcknight_kingdom.pdf
Joanie D. 

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