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Simplifying the Indiscernibility of Identicals
I’ve posted quite a few times here before about identity, and about the principle often called “Leibniz’s Law” – the Indiscernibility of Identicals. This is often put: Necessarily, for any x and any y,...
View ArticleJerry Walls: What is wrong with Calvinism?
Devastating. I have long noted that Augustinian/Calvinist theology is unpopular among Christian philosophers, though many, like me, go through a Calvinist phase (when I was a sophomore and junior in...
View Article“Only God can forgive sins.” False.
Here’s the argument discussed: Only God can forgive sins. Jesus forgave sins. Therefore, Jesus is God. (1,2) The argument is plainly valid. (That is: if 1 and 2 were true, then 3 would have to be...
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Larry Hurtado on early Christians’ worship of Jesus
Larry Hurtado is, rightly, one of the most respected historians of early Christianity. His massive Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity is much cited. To new reader, I would...
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William Lane Craig in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Here. On the whole, a well done piece. Craig is indeed a fearsome debater, and a bold and insightful scholar. His devotion to apologetics makes him a bit uncool among professional philosophers. But I...
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Tim Pawl: a God-man is possible
Catholic analytic philosopher Tim Pawl (University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota) argues that this is logically consistent: Jesus has both a divine and a human nature. His answer is challenged by another...
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“the only true President” of the USA – another laughable Fox News blunder
(click for image credit) Here’s a bedtime story dedicated to a gent I interacted with on Facebook recently. It concerns theory-driven mis-readings of John 17:1-5. The vice-president had said something...
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My diabolical “ruse” exposed – drat!
My “On Baukham’s Bargain” has drawn a response from my biggest fan, the Reformed brawler Steve Hays. I reply in the comments there. Given how many evangelicals have jumped on the Bauckham Bandwagon, I...
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Zarley asks: Can Genuine Christians Be Trinitarian or Non-Trinitarian?
(click for image credit) An important post by the Golf Pro from the Moon. He answers the above question, in part: Yes. I was a Trinitarian for twenty-two years until God enlightened me through...
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podcast episode 23 – report from the second annual Los Angeles Theology...
From left to right: Oliver Crisp’s Beard, Oliver Crisp, Thomas McCall, Fred Sanders, Karen Kilby, Lewis Ayres, and Stephen Holmes. In this episode I share my reflections on this conference, and...
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podcast episode 40 – Dr. Stephen T. Davis on Christians in Philosophy
In this episode I talk with Christian philosopher Dr. Stephen T. Davis on the occasion of the start of his phased retirement from Claremont McKenna College (and the Claremont Graduate University). We...
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podcast episode 43 – Dr. Stephen R. Holmes on God and humankind
Is God a self – a being capable of consciousness, knowledge, and choice, like us, but infinitely greater? Or is God a community, or a something-we-know-not-what? Dr. Holmes’s language in his book The...
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Jesus’s argument in John 10
You think that Jesus was good. But do you also think that Jesus was smart? So smart, that you have to carefully weigh his statements and carefully parse his arguments? I do. In this post, I submit his...
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Dr. James N. Anderson on Paradoxes in Theology
Theologian-apologist-philosopher Dr. James N. Anderson of Reformed Theological Seminary has posted his new entry for IVP’s New Dictionary of Theology on “Paradox” – that is, on apparent...
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podcast episode 65 – Dr. Joshua Blander on John Duns Scotus on Identity and...
John Duns Scotus (d. 1308), nicknamed by tradition “the Subtle Doctor,” was one of the most important medieval Christian philosophers, and was notorious for the difficulty of his thought. In this...
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Did Jesus have faith in God? – Part 3
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I’ve deliberately argued from present-day evangelical assumptions, and not from the classical catholic theorizing about Jesus. Let me explain. Evangelicals nowadays...
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Did Jesus have faith in God? – part 4
In part 3 we looked at a number of arguments relating to Jesus, God, and faith. Perhaps the most important was this: 1. God doesn’t have faith. 2. Jesus is God. 3. Therefore, Jesus doesn’t have faith....
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podcast episode 68 – Dr. Harriet Baber on Relative Identity and the Trinity
“I’ve heard of John and Peter, and James – but who is this Cephas?” A more informed Bible reader will tell him that Cephas is Peter. The point is not that Cephas is like Peter, or similar to Peter, but...
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Did Jesus have faith in God? – Part 5
Continuing the conversation, apologist Tom Gilson stands by his claim that the NT doesn’t teach that Jesus had faith during his earthly life, and indeed, tellingly declines to say that. He says, in...
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podcast episode 69 – James Lee on the Trinity and Ontological Pluralism
In this episode we hear Mr. James Lee (PhD student in Philosophy at Syracuse University) present his paper “His Ways (of Being) Are Not Our Ways” at the Society of Christian Philosophers meeting on...
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