One of the current debates among Reformed scholars concerns whether Reformed theology commits one to a compatibilist view of free will. Is there room in the Reformed tradition for a ‘libertarian Calvinism’ which affirms Calvinist distinctives (such as a strong view of divine providence...

The Nashville Statement was published this week, and the (over)reaction to it has been entirely predictable. It’s a fine summary of the biblical Christian position on human sexuality, and (while I might quibble with the wording here and there) I agree with all of its affirmations and...

You might know that P&R have been publishing new editions of Cornelius Van Til’s major works. You might also know that those new editions have introductions and explanatory notes by WTS professors William Edgar and K. Scott Oliphint.

You might not know, however, that a couple of...

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I’ve been revisiting Richard Dawkins’ best-seller The God Delusion in preparation for an apologetics class I’ll be teaching next week. On opening it up, I fell upon the dedication “In Memoriam” to Douglas Adams, accompanied by the following quotation (presumably from...

Thanks, Isaac. Apparently not all readers were so positive about it! :)

A great article, Dr. Anderson! Thanks for taking the time to write it.

Who would be so foolhardy as to accept an invitation to answer that question in only 1400 words?

Find out here.

Now that is funny, you might want to get Chris a bigger office… its real nice to have the innate quality, or should I say capability , to make mistakes…that is where the learning really takes place. To err is to learn.

It’s that most wonderful time of the year: grading season. As I’ve noted before, there’s an occasional silver lining to this otherwise purgatorial duty, namely, occasionally encountering an amusing typo or other lapsus calami. Five years ago I posted a collection of these gaffes,...

Spot on!

Dale Tuggy has recently been discussing at some length what he takes to be an inconsistent triad of claims:

1. Jesus died.

2. Jesus was fully divine.

3. No fully divine being has ever died.

He thinks that 1 is beyond dispute for Bible-believing Christians, and that 3 also finds strong support from the...

Some insight from Eliot’s essay “Religion and Literature” (1935):

Now what we get, as we gradually grow up and read more and more, and read a greater diversity of authors, is a variety of views of life. But what people commonly assume, I suspect, is that we gain this experience of...

Thanks for the comments. I agree. No combination of physical determinism (necessity) and physical indeterminism (chance) can generate consciousness and intentionality (never mind moral/rational norms).

Thanks for this! Nice work.

Thanks for the review.

I’ve created an argument map of Lowder’s opening argument here: http://tinyurl.com/m2wglfj

Will map out the rest of the debate as I have time.

Thank you for the excellent review. I had a good laugh at the apropos “Stealing from Presuppositionalists” rejoinder!

I agree with your point that Turek relying on mere “determinism” to undermine the atheist is ineffective. I’ve seen too many use that truncated...

I recently watched (or rather listened to) the debate last December between Jeffrey Jay Lowder and Frank Turek on whether naturalism or theism “better explains reality”:

Overall it was one of the better theist-atheist debates I’ve encountered, and I would recommend watching it. The...

Excellent, Dan! Many thanks for these.

This is a really useful list. To add to it:

– The Sense of Deity and Begging the Question with Ontological and Cosmological Arguments (Faith and Philosophy, 2009) — An essay in which I argue that many ontological and cosmological arguments can be stronger if understood as John...

One criticism of presuppositional apologetics is that its advocates rarely if ever offer serious argumentsfor their distinctive claims (e.g., the claim that our ability to reason presupposes the existence of God). The criticism is overstated, but there is a measure of truth to it. I count myself a...

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Hi from Denver. All is going well at seminary out here. I recently read most of Craig’s book the Only Wise God as well as Helm’s the Providence of God. The latter is much superior to the former. It actually seemed like Craig had to limit certain senses of God’s foreknowledge...

Consider this post a sidebar to the ongoing series on Molinism. It draws on some recent comments by William Lane Craig, arguably the leading evangelical defender of Molinism, in response to a reader’s question (bold added):

First, I don’t claim that “universal salvation is...

The following article was published in the Christian Research Journal 39:5 (2016). Thanks to CRI for permission to post it here.

How Do You Know That the Bible Is God’s Word?

If you’re a regular reader of the Christian Research Journal, I suspect that question immediately prompts you to...