Reading path
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.
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Section · Section 01
A universe rather than nothing
The four classical arguments at a glance.
- 02
Note
Sean Carroll and poetic naturalism
The strongest contemporary naturalist alternative.
- 03
Note
Lemaître and the Christian origin of the Big Bang
Cosmology's Christian origin.
- 04
Section · Section 02
Three things a monotheism has to do
Why Christian monotheism specifically.
- 05
Section · Section 16
God in the suffering, not above it
The Cross as the participatory answer to the problem of evil.
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Note
Hell, universalism, and the range of orthodox options
Hell, universalism, and the range of orthodox options.
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Section · Section 09
Six pillars
The historical case as load bearing test.
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Section · Section 17
The case is the case
The closing.