Deriving the Moral Law
The moral law describes how to achieve the good. How can we derive the moral law? Here Dr Anderson gives an example by deriving the first moral law about God…
The Moral Law: What is a Moral Law?
Ethics studies choice. What ought I to do? To answer this question we must know what is the good. The moral law describes what must be done to achieve the…
Solution: God is Doing the Best He Can
One common solution to the problem of evil is to say that God is doing the best he can. This is to say that God is finite. He is like…
Aquinas, Al-Ghazali, Mysticism, and the Knowledge of God
Is a mystical experience the highest knowledge of God? Both Aquinas and Al-Ghazali turned away from their work in philosophy and theology after having a mystical experience. This teaches a…
The Thief on the Cross
Do the Gospels contradict each other about the two thieves? Did both mock Christ or just one? What we see is a concise example of repentance. This begins with the…
Luke 1: Can we be certain?
In Luke 1:1-4 Luke tells us why he is writing the Gospel. He is giving what the eyewitnesses and ministers of the word had delivered. Those are two separate but…
Augustine, Conversion, and the Beatific Vision
Continuing in Chapter 3 we look at Augustine. Dr Anderson traces Augustine’s change from a Manichean (a form of dualism) to theist. He gives an argument about the nature of…
Jordan Peterson, Cain and Abel, and the Psychoanalytic Approach to Religion
How does the psychoanalytic approach understand religion? Is it a deeper approach or one that doesn’t not go deep enough to recognize its own assumptions? Here Dr Anderson looks at…
Revelation 1
The book of Revelation fascinates people and also confuses people. Here Dr Anderson at just the first three verses to show how they set the context for the rest of…
Jordan Peterson and Mesopotamian gods
The Mesopotamian gods are based on a dualist structure between order and chaos. When the second generation gods killed the god of order they lived in his dead corpse. Is…