*Note: I’ve recently had to go back and either delete or temporarily remove certain posts for purposes of editing/updating, especially older ones. My apologies for inconveniences
A directory to make access to series of posts easier:
The Existence of God
The Five Ways:
- The First Way: Argument from Motion
- The Second Way: Argument from Efficient Causation
- The Third Way: Argument from Contingency
- The Fourth Way: Argument from Degrees of Perfection
- Aquinas’s Argument from Degrees of Perfection for the Existence of God: Introduction
- Aquinas’s Argument from Degrees of Perfection Part 2: Goodness and Being
- Aquinas’s Argument from Degrees of Perfection Part 3: Hierarchy of Being
- Aquinas’s Argument from Degrees of Perfection Part 4: Conclusion
- Outlined Version of the Degrees of Perfection Argument
- The Fifth Way: Argument from Design
Arguments from Desire:
- An Augustinian Argument from Desire
- Thomistic Argument from Desire, Part I
- Thomistic Argument from Desire, Part II
Kalam Cosmological Argument:
- Assessing the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Part 1
- Assessing the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Part II: Aristotle vs Philoponus on Eternity
Others:
Response to Arguments for Naturalism/Atheism:
- Why Did God Create Anything at All?
- Why Did God Create Anything at All Part 2: The Problem of Non-God Objects
- 25 Arguments for Atheism #1: The Unimpressiveness of Humans
- Further Thoughts on the Unimpressiveness of Humans Argument for Atheism
- Epicurean Cosmological Argument
- Arguments for Atheism #2: Material Causation and Creation Ex Nihilo
- Brief Thoughts on Meaning, Purpose, and God
- Could an Evil God Exist? Thoughts on Classical Theism and Definitions of God
- Responding to the Cosmic Skeptic on the Cosmological Argument
Metaphysics
Beginning Metaphysics: A Presentation and Defense of Aristotelian-Thomism:
- Beginnings Metaphysics: First Philosophy as “Lord of the Sciences”
- Beginning Metaphysics II: Defining Existence
- Beginning Metaphysics III: Introduction to Essence and Existence
- Beginning Metaphysics IV: Essentialism
Christianity
Christian Theology:
- An Existential Argument for the Resurrection
- An Augustinian Defense of Hell
- The Incarnation and Boethius’ Hierarchy of Knowledge
The Person of Jesus:
- The Most Significant Human in History: An Introduction to the Person of Jesus
- The Person of Jesus Part 1: Jesus’s Shadow Over History
- The Person of Jesus Part 2: Questions for Inquiry
- The Person of Jesus Part 3: The Historical Jesus
- The Person of Jesus Part 4: The Existence of Jesus
- The Person of Jesus Part 5: Sources and Historical Method
- The Person of Jesus Part 6: The Gospels as Sources
- The Person of Jesus Part 7: The Life of Jesus
Forthcoming:
9. Jesus’s Identity in the Church Fathers
10. Jesus’s Identity in the New Testament Epistles
11. Jesus’s Identity in the Gospels
Reading the Greats
Aristotle:
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.1: What is the study of Nature?
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.2: Is Nature One or Many?
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.3: Being is Not One
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.4: Being is Not Infinite
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.5: Contraries as Principles
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.6: The Number of Principles
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.7: The Principles of Nature
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.8: Essential and Accidental Change
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 1.9: Conclusion on the Principles
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 2.1: What is Nature?
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 2.2: Physics, Math, and Metaphysics
- Reading Aristotle: Physics 2.3: The Four Causes
Aquinas:
- Reason and Divine Revelation: Reading Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Prologue and I, Q. 1, Art. 1
- Theology as Science: Reading Aquinas: Summa Theologiae I, Q. 1, Art. 2-4
- The Most Noble Science: Reading Aquinas: Summa Theologiae I, Q. 1, Art. 5
- Reading Aquinas on Evil: Is Evil an Entity? (Q. 1, Art. 1)
- Reading Aquinas on Evil: Is Evil in Good? (Q. 1, Art. 2)
Plato:
Misc:
Socratic Dialogues
On Love:
- A Socratic Dialogue about the Nature of Love
- Second Dialogue on the Nature of Love
- Third Dialogue on the Nature of Love
Science
Evolution/Intelligent Design:
Book Reviews
- Review: An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar
- Review: Apologetics and the Christian Imagination