Wired Article

I’m officially going to stop blogging.  Wired’s suggestion made an excellent point that it takes up too much time to keep a blog active.  So, future posts will be on Facebook.  More permanent stuff will go onto my website eventually.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay

Anyways,

Good luck to all the bloggers out there!

Alex

There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed his Mind by Anthony Flew

Although, I wouldn’t consider Anthony Flew to be an extremely well-known atheist.  He does appear to have been defending atheism academically and honing the arguments in favor of atheism for half-a-century.  He has read papers in the presence of C.S. Lewis and debated William Lane Craig in the early 21st century.

I think this book provides an excellent overview of the arguments that is tied together with how Flew made the journey from being an atheist to a deist. Also, N.T. Wright has an excellent appendix at the end discussing the evidence for Christ and the resurrection. In contrast to many strictly philosophical works, this book is very readable while still maintaining much of the depth and respect for the arguments that one would expect in a philosophical work.

Francis Schaefer’s Trilogy: The God Who is There, Escape from Reason, and He is There and He is Not Silent

I generally like these books. I particilary like how Schaefer integrates philosophy, culture and theology. This is an exceptional thing since, many books on theology I have read ignore the connections bettween these three. These connections are important, because philosophy oftentimes effects the culture, which has an impact on the church.  Throughout, this process Schaefer provides a good overview of philosophy as it relates to culture and theology especially.  He also defends the idea of absolute truth and morality.  It’s also very readable and interesting!