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The philosophy of religion path

You want the philosophical case engaged at depth before the historical particulars.

The cosmological argument, the fine tuning argument, the moral argument, the argument from consciousness, the problem of evil, the trinity as a solution to the relational problem of strict monotheism. Then the historical case as the load bearing test.

  1. 01

    Section · Section 01

    A universe rather than nothing

    The four classical arguments at a glance.

  2. 02

    Note

    Sean Carroll and poetic naturalism

    The strongest contemporary naturalist alternative.

  3. 03

    Note

    Lemaître and the Christian origin of the Big Bang

    Cosmology's Christian origin.

  4. 04

    Section · Section 02

    Three things a monotheism has to do

    Why Christian monotheism specifically.

  5. 05

    Section · Section 16

    God in the suffering, not above it

    The Cross as the participatory answer to the problem of evil.

  6. 06

    Note

    Hell, universalism, and the range of orthodox options

    Hell, universalism, and the range of orthodox options.

  7. 07

    Section · Section 09

    Six pillars

    The historical case as load bearing test.

  8. 08

    Section · Section 17

    The case is the case

    The closing.