2017-01-31 20:41
Thanks for reading and following my work! I've been away from blogging for a while, but I have been busily at work.I'm continuing to write regularly at New Evangelizers, which I've been cros… Read More
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2017-01-31 20:30
Oxford dictionaries named “post-truth” their word of the year. It is defined as “relating or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shapi… Read More
2016-08-12 19:19
Some people have trouble accepting the accuracy of the Gospels. Even if we accept that some of the New Testament was written just 20 to 30 years after the Resurrection, that’s still… Read More
2016-03-25 20:01
The road to Bethlehem we take in Advent turns, in Lent, inexorably toward Calvary.I've written a little about that, and a striking Lenten display at my home parish, at the Catholic Writers G… Read More
2016-03-15 05:07
Psychological studies have shown that we’re not fully reliable witnesses. Witnesses can lead themselves (or be led by others) to remember details that were never there. They generate f… Read More
2016-01-10 02:20
My latest post is up at New Evangelizers, the fourth in a short series of meditations on the rosary in light of 40 Days for Life. In Bearing Witness to the Truth, I consider Jesus' words:&l&hell…Read More
2015-08-11 14:51
I tried cooking breakfast the other day. (Mind you, normally I'm a great cook.) After a few minutes over the electric griddle and stove, I found that the bacon was almost done but the eggs w… Read More
2015-05-30 16:42
What do we have so far?We have some other-worldly fulfillment of a natural desire we experience.We have a source of existence, something that is existence itself.We have a first cause, which… Read More
2015-05-21 03:56
Two years ago, I relaunched Ho Kai Paulos and started a new and pretty large project, "God from the Ground Up". Slowly, we've worked through some basic terms and arguments for the existenc… Read More
2015-05-21 03:47
I found a few additional videos -- one quite recent -- from Dr. Craig's team that summarize The Kalam Cosmological Argument and The Fine-Tuning of the Universe. These have been added to the… Read More
2015-05-21 03:46
Let's look at another popular argument for God's existence: the moral argument. This argument starts from our own experience of morality -- that there is right and wrong -- and answers… Read More
2015-02-07 12:00
I've updated a few past posts with additional video links. Both The Argument from Desire and Arguments from Contingency: Motion posts have additional links to videos from Fr. Robert Ba… Read More
2015-01-07 05:25
On Brandon Vogt's excellent Strange Notions, Dr. Kreeft presents the Common Consent Argument for God. This is what he's elsewhere described as a "probable proof". Put simply, the vast… Read More
2015-01-07 05:25
Dr. Kreeft puts very succinctly what he calls the Argument from Aesthetics:There is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.Therefore there must be a God.You either see this one or you don't.He i… Read More
2014-12-24 17:12
A very blessed and Merry Christmas to everyone!If as St. Maximilian Kolbe wrote, "the cross is the school of love", then Christmas is an invitation to learn to love. Christmas is our grammar… Read More
2014-12-07 07:56
Last time, we considered the concept of objective moral values. Let's look at two slightly more technical issues that come up when discussing the moral argument. If you're already comfortabl… Read More
2014-11-10 02:35
In the second premise -- the second sentence -- of the moral argument, we state that "objective moral values do exist". What does that mean?There are three things that make a free choi… Read More
2014-09-23 17:04
So far, we've considered arguments for the existence of God from our desires, from teleology, and many from contingency. Now, let's look at the category of cosmological arguments.This is an… Read More
2014-09-23 17:01
In the last post, we considered the category of Cosmological Arguments and the Kalam Cosmological Argument in particular. Cosmological arguments have to do with the cosmos--the universe as a… Read More
2014-09-03 11:00
Next, we'll consider the ontological argument. Ontology is the study of being or existence. It asks questions like "What exists?" and "How can we categorize existing things?"An ontological a… Read More
2014-08-13 18:03
Since I relaunched this blog, I've been primarily working on building our beliefs logically from basic definitions, to arguments, and on up. I'm particular devoted to learning and teaching t… Read More
2014-07-07 17:59
St. Thomas Aquinas' fourth way is the Argument from Gradation of Being, from Degree, or from Goodness. It's an argument based on our experience that some things are better than others.Better… Read More
2014-06-08 18:49
St. Thomas Aquinas' third way is the Argument from Possibility and Necessity, or the Reductio argument. It's based on the observation that things exist and don't need to exist.Things Fall Ap… Read More
2014-05-25 04:22
St. Thomas Aquinas' second way is the Argument from Efficient Causes or the First Cause Argument. It's an argument that focuses on the beginning of existence.What is an "efficient ca… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At New Evangelizers, I'm continuing a short series of meditations on the rosary in light of 40 Days for Life. In Remain Here, and Watch with Me, I consider Jesus' words:“If any man wo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At New Evangelizers, I'm continuing a short series of meditations on the rosary in light of 40 Days for Life. In Take Up Your Cross, Parents, I consider these verses:Then Jesus went with t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
At New Evangelizers, I've started a new short series of meditations on the rosary in light of 40 Days for Life (or, meditations on 40 Days for Life in light of the rosary?).The first post in… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hierarchy. In his article at Bad Catholic, An Idiotic Hierarchy, Marc Barnes describes the word's use, today, as if it's "Greek for 'storm troopers' or 'really bad STDs.'" Far from a bad wor… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Let's continue exploring natural theology - what we can understand about God from human reason alone - with the Argument from Contingency. We've built up from some foundational terms t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Starting this week, I'm introducing my new series:Relativism from God DownWe'll start from faithful Catholic belief and practice, and work our way down, step by step, to a mess of relativism… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The argument from design is also called, sometimes, the "teleological argument" or the "argument from final cause". "Teleology" refers to the study of purpose. This argument is the fifth of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The first example of natural theology we'll look at is a personal favorite--one that had a profound effect on me: the Argument from Desire, popularized by C. S. Lewis. It starts with the fac… Read More
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