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A Universe From Nothing?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 13/04/2012
If Richard Dawkins is to be believed, Lawrence Krauss has written a book which destroys the last trump card of the theologian. In his book A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something...
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Presupposing a Thing or Two
Author. Matthew Hosier | Publication Date. 19/03/2012
Everyone has presuppositions. Here are a few of mine: God exists; beauty and truth are real; wine is good, coke is bad.
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Apologetics is Boring
Author. Matthew Hosier | Publication Date. 15/03/2012
As Monday is my day off, I will often indulge myself by listening to Start the Week on Radio 4. It is often hugely frustrating, and has me shouting at the radio, but it can also be an...
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The Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible: An Observer’s Comments
Author. Ruth Preston | Publication Date. 03/03/2012
I like studying other religions. In the past I have found that I have grown in my understanding of the grace of Christ and the relevance of Biblical ethics when comparing them to other...
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The “Evil God” Challenge
Author. Mike Rundle | Publication Date. 02/03/2012
For many atheists today, the best argument available against the existence of the Christian God is the "evil God" challenge, as posed by philosopher Stephen Law. For Law, the standard...
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Under the Spotlight
Author. Jennie Pollock | Publication Date. 17/02/2012
It was with great glee that Richard Dawkins this week revealed the results of a survey he had commissioned into ‘Census Christians’ – those who self-identify on the census and other...
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Kim John-L
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 06/01/2012
Last year, I got into a conversation with an articulate, educated man in Starbucks about what was wrong with the world, and what the solution was. His response, as it would be for many...
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The Gospels As Eyewitness Accounts
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 19/12/2011
Many readers of this blog will know of Richard Bauckham's magisterial book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, in which one of the world's leading New Testament scholars makes a compelling case...
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Tweets For The Streets
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 07/12/2011
Lots of people go out on the streets at this time of year, to talk to people about Jesus, the gospel and the meaning of Christmas. When those conversations happen, we often encounter...
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The Theodicy Odyssey
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 02/11/2011
Mike Bird, over at Euangelion, suggests that the demand for a watertight theodicy in response to the problem of evil is logically incoherent. It’s not the first time the argument has been...
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Serpents and Doves
Author. Ruth Preston | Publication Date. 27/10/2011
The William Lane Craig (WLC) Reasonable Faith Tour is drawing to a close. Craig has been visiting different major cities across the UK over the last few weeks, debating with the academic...
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Is God a Moral Monster?
Author. Liam Thatcher | Publication Date. 17/10/2011
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty...
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Why did God put the Tree in the Garden?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 12/10/2011
I’m not sure what the hardest biblical question of all time is, but any shortlist has to include this one: why did God put the tree in the garden?
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The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 10/10/2011
Christian Smith has had a busy time of it recently. A few weeks ago, the Notre Dame professor's book The Bible Made Impossible started a wide-ranging and fascinating debate about the...
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An Eastern Orthodox Howitzer
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 05/10/2011
The last few Wednesdays’ posts have represented something of an evangelical intramural, so how about an Eastern Orthodox philosopher to fire his apologetics howitzer at us? David Bentley...
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A Pot/Potter Thing
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 28/09/2011
The third big question I asked a few weeks ago was this:
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Bill Craig on tour
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 27/09/2011
You may have heard that the well-known American apologist William Lane Craig is visiting the UK from 17-26 October for a brief tour, entitled "Reasonable Faith". The first event is a debate...
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Why I am a Christian
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 24/08/2011
It’s in the nature of things that apologetics can often be a bit defensive. Articles, blog posts and even books come about because, from time to time, somebody who is famous (usually for...
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A God of Violence?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 17/08/2011
The God of the Old Testament is something of an apologetic liability these days. The ‘vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser’ of whom Richard Dawkins spoke so savagely in The God...
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Hollyoaks and the holocaust
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 13/07/2011
The mood at the end of Atheist Delusions, which I’ve been blogging through for the last couple of months, is somewhat melancholic. David Bentley Hart has given an excoriating demolition...
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When Christianity Changed the World
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 06/07/2011
‘Christianity was, quite unambiguously, a cosmic sedition.’ So maintains David Bentley Hart in part III of his book Atheist Delusions, which is a rollercoaster ride through the various...
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Witches and Westphalia
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 29/06/2011
The arrogant story of modernism, argues David Bentley Hart in his book Atheist Delusions, is based on several distortions: that medieval people were captive to dogma while modern people are...
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Eppur Si Muove
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 22/06/2011
Galileo Galilei, as we all know, had his books banned for telling the truth. He represented a shining light of knowledge which the Church tried to hide for centuries, thanks to their love...
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Rather Silly, But No Sillier
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 15/06/2011
The story of modernity, says David Bentley Hart at the beginning of part II of his outstanding book Atheist Delusions, goes something like this.
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Nihilism, freedom and interior decorating
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 25/05/2011
There are an awful lot of prejudices masquerading as arguments, David Bentley Hart believes, in the writings of Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins and co. The scientific arguments they...
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Nietzsche’s good manners
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 18/05/2011
The fashionable atheist pamphleteers of recent years have annoyed a lot of people, including many of my most intelligent atheist or agnostic friends, but few can have responded with the...
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And this big story is bunk
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 11/05/2011
It’s been years since I’ve enjoyed reading a book as much as David Bentley Hart’s exceptional Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies. If you can make...
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The Reason Against God (Part II)
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 04/05/2011
So there’s an interesting atheist rebuttal of Tim Keller’s The Reason for God online, and I’m halfway through responding to it. Last week, I responded to the rebuttal of part I of...
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The Reason Against God: Part 1
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 20/04/2011
A friend of mine pointed me to a fascinating rebuttal of Tim Keller’s The Reason for God. It’s in two parts: a response to the first part of Keller’s book, in which Keller explains...
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Forged
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 13/04/2011
If you’re trying to discredit the Bible, the academic you’re most likely to wheel out these days is Bart Ehrman, on whom I’ve posted briefly before. True to form, his new book,...
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A minority among other minorities
Author. Ruth Preston | Publication Date. 08/04/2011
A few weeks ago I was invited to an event hosted by the local mosque where the renowned Yusha Evans was to teach the umma (Muslim community) of Brighton and Hove Da’wah. That is, to teach...
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Steve Chalke: Is the Bible infallible?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 06/04/2011
Sometimes, apologetics involves answering tough questions asked by Christians, and even responding to arguments mounted by Christian leaders in Christian publications. In a short piece two...
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Mmm, Marcionism
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 23/03/2011
It’s very easy to give away the farm in apologetics. So many things Christians believe are so unpopular, off-putting, or even offensive to secular Western people (the Fall, sin, the...
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Hart on Hitchens
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 16/03/2011
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox thinker, a contributor to the Catholic journal First Things, and (in my opinion) something of a genius.
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The Problem of Knowing
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 09/03/2011
Have you ever wondered if your dreams were the real world, and the real world was just a very vivid dream? When I was a kid, I sometimes used to pinch myself in normal life, to check that...
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Growing Out of the New Atheism
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 02/03/2011
One of the more remarkable things about the ‘new atheism’ – the fundamentalist, aggressive variety that has sprung up in the last five years, spearheaded by the self-styled ‘four...
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Joe Carter: Do Tummy Aches Disprove God?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 23/02/2011
A superb piece from Joe Carter for First Things on evil and the existence of God:
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Is God A Monster?
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 16/02/2011
It is becoming increasingly commonplace, even fashionable, for atheists and sceptics to argue against Christian belief on the basis that the Old Testament God is unpleasant. Read around the...
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Two Things to Learn from Richard Herring
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 09/02/2011
The week before Christmas, The Times featured an article by the comedian Richard Herring that contained an interesting couple of insights. Defending his irreligious new tour show, Christ on...
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A Grand Design
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 02/02/2011
It’s settled down a bit now, but when Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow first released their book A Grand Design in September, it caused a flurry of news reports that basically...
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Stanley Fish and the Socio-Political Avatar
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 26/01/2011
If the modern, secular liberal state had a Bible, it might be the opinion section of the New York Times. And if it had a high priest, candidates would certainly include Stanley Fish, the...
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The Ehrman Project
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 24/01/2011
Bart Ehrman is probably the New Testament scholar you’re most likely to see quoted by atheists.
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Atheism Lite
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 22/01/2011
Scott Stephens, on the Religion and Ethics blog for the ABC Network, has a fascinating piece on the faddishness and lightweightness of the ‘New Atheism’. In an excoriating article here,...
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When Richard Dawkins was right
Author. Andrew Wilson | Publication Date. 19/01/2011
It might seem an odd way to launch, but I can think of no better way to kick off my blog series – a series which will focus on communicating the Christian message in the public square,...
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