Jason Thibodeau offered this comment in response to my article, “Homosexuality, Academic Freedom, and the Swinburne Controversy”: “A good person, seeing that his worldview has committed him to claiming that a group of people are defective just because of the kind of person that they are attracted to, takes this as a reason to question […]
Richard Swinburne
Homosexuality, Academic Freedom, and the Swinburne Controversy
Whoa, have things gotten heated among the Christian philosophers recently. It all started a couple weeks ago when esteemed philosopher Richard Swinburne was invited to give an address to the Midwest Society of Christian Philosophers Conference (September 22-24). Swinburne is arguably (or inarguably!) one of the two most influential living Christian philosophers (Alvin Plantinga being […]
The most amazing thing imaginable
I asked Jerry to explain what he means by “the most amazing thing imaginable”. He replied: By “the most amazing thing imaginable” I mean God as the omnipotent omniscient deity that has been posited as the explanation for everything that exists. In other words, Jerry thinks it amazing that a necessary, maximally powerful and intelligent […]
