Daniel_Cheung
10-03-2009, 11:01 PM
Why Christianity Is Believable: A Reply to Dawkinsians and Their Ilk
http://stackblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/why-christianity-is-believable-a-reply-to-dawkinsians-and-their-ilk-part-one/
A couple of posts ago, I replied to Richard Dawkins?s charge that theologians don't do anything useful. I replied in a couple of respects to that charge, but under friendly pressure from some of you it emerges more clearly that there are at least two more kinds of things to be said and argued.
First, is there something there that theologians describe? I argued the other way: If there is a God, and theologians know something about that God, then their/our work is useful. But of course many people wonder about the premise: Is there indeed a God and is that God the God of the (Christian) theologians?...
Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Two
http://stackblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/why-christianity-is-believable-part-two/
Fun as it would be to argue over various perennial questions in the long, long debate over the intellectual credibility of Christianity, we're all busy people. So let's proceed to the core question of this religion that, after all, takes its name from an actual claim about Jesus of Nazareth, namely, that he was (and is) the Christos or 'Messiah' (Anointed One) of God: the Lord and Saviour of the world.
How would a reasonable person begin to make up her mind about such a stupendous claim?...
http://stackblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/why-christianity-is-believable-a-reply-to-dawkinsians-and-their-ilk-part-one/
A couple of posts ago, I replied to Richard Dawkins?s charge that theologians don't do anything useful. I replied in a couple of respects to that charge, but under friendly pressure from some of you it emerges more clearly that there are at least two more kinds of things to be said and argued.
First, is there something there that theologians describe? I argued the other way: If there is a God, and theologians know something about that God, then their/our work is useful. But of course many people wonder about the premise: Is there indeed a God and is that God the God of the (Christian) theologians?...
Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Two
http://stackblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/why-christianity-is-believable-part-two/
Fun as it would be to argue over various perennial questions in the long, long debate over the intellectual credibility of Christianity, we're all busy people. So let's proceed to the core question of this religion that, after all, takes its name from an actual claim about Jesus of Nazareth, namely, that he was (and is) the Christos or 'Messiah' (Anointed One) of God: the Lord and Saviour of the world.
How would a reasonable person begin to make up her mind about such a stupendous claim?...