Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
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 us but greater. However, we would expect more even from a finite …
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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 fear of God and recognition of sin …
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 reinforcing categories. The …
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 Jordan Peterson’s …
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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 the book. Especially the broad sense …
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 this a teaching about the …
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