The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on Feb 20th, 2008
John DePoe is a doctoral student in Philosophy whose blog posts I’ve enjoyed for quite a while. Some of his stuff is beyond me, but I thought his post on Friendly Atheism to be interesting, and possibly helpful to some of my readers.
From 1985 to 1991 I worked for General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas. Half of that time was on F-16 related projects, and the last half was working on the A-12 Avenger II, a highly ambitious project to build what could be called an aircraft carrier based stealth bomber. Technical difficulties led to cost overruns, [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on Feb 16th, 2008
Here is a 3 minute video of Dr. William Lane Craig responding to a typical argument for atheism. Dr. Craig is a logic machine. He has the ability to cut through the cloud of rhetoric with a laser beam of logic, and explain his case step-by-step so that his argument seems irrefutable.
Stizzyocayce tagged me to do the following:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
I think the closest book was the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I was consulting recently for an email conversation. It was towards my left, [...]
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Patristics on Feb 3rd, 2008
I am taking a class on Patristic Theology, which is about the theology of the early Christians. I have a lot of reading for this class from the original ancient sources, and they are very fascinating. I have decided to try to share on this blog important passages as I run across them in my [...]