I'm currently leading a reading group at Phoenix Seminary on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. He is working to answer this question: why was belief in God the norm in 1500 and now it is not. It is …
Ask a Philosopher: What is Critical Thinking?
Ask a Philosopher: I often get questions in emails about my blog or books. I have been replying to these on email but decided I might also start posting answers as part of a series “ask a …
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The Academy Lecture
I will be giving a talk this spring about the question: "What has Jerusalem to do with Athens." As part of the talk, I will discuss the Academy in Athens. I make this part of my analysis of early …
Some Things Are Clear
In my 2008 book "The Clarity of God's Existence" I wrote about the principle of clarity. In that work the principle of clarity states that if the failure to know God (unbelief) is without excuse, …
God and Truth VI
Join us on Tuesday, Oct 23, for God and Truth VI. This year we will discuss how to find meaning. Can nihilism be avoided if we deny that there is anything clear? …
Modernity and Its Idols
(from the preface to my book The Natural Moral Law) As Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear . . . I chose Carle van Loo’s painting Aeneas …