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"'Let Nothing that Breathes Remain Alive.' On the Problem of Divinely Commanded Genocide." Philosophia Christi
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In this paper I critique Paul Copan's defense of the Canaanite genocide while developing four counter-arguments to the possiblity that God could have commanded genocidal acts.
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"On the Immorality of Disproving Peter Unger" (unpublished)
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In this paper I discuss Peter Unger's arguments for our bracing obligations to the world's poor (in the book Living High and Letting Die) as well as the moral implications of dissenting from his arguments.
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"Worshipping a Flying Teapot? What to Do When Christianity Looks Ridiculous" (The Other Journal)
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In this article I discuss the importance of developing plausibility frameworks when doing apologetics. I advocate the pursuit of long-term cultural renewal as one dimension in the task of making Christianity plausible once again to the secular West.
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"Is the Trinity a True Contradiction?" (Quodlibet Journal)
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In the article "Is the Trinity a True Contradiction?" I consider the possibility that an appeal to paraconsistency in logic could be used to explain the apparently contradictory nature of the Christian confession that in God 1 = 3 (that is there is one God who is three wholly distinct and completely divine persons).
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"Rahner's Rule: An Emperor Without Clothes?" (International Journal of Systematic Theology)
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In this article I argue that the well known axiom Rahner's Rule appears to be either trivial or obviously false.
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| "Theology as a Bull Session"in Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology, eds. Oliver Crisp and Michael Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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In this article I engage the philosophical discussion initiated by Harry Frankfurt and later taken up by G.A. Gohen and others around the concept of bulls__t, a term which references a disinterest in truth that contrasts both with truth-telling and lying. Unfortunately this disinterest in truth often affects academic discourse just as it affects other areas of society (e.g. advertising and politico-speak). I argue the point through a critique of the respective theologies of Jurgen Moltmann and Sallie McFague.
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Book Review in International Journal of Systematic Theology
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A review of Veli-Matti Karkkainen, The Trinity: Global Perspectives.
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Book Review in Ars Disputandi
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| A Review of James Beilby, Epistemology as Theology
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Book Review in International Journal of Systematic Theology
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A Review of William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (note: the review is on pp. 96-100)
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Rauser11.1.pdf [550.93K]
