Posts Tagged by historical method
Epistemological Confusion about revelation and Revelation
| July 19, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Bible Reliability, Blog, Creationism, evolution, General, scientism, Secular Humanism |
When a Christian apologist invokes ‘revelation’ it is often understood by atheists and skeptics to refer to the “writings of the flawed goat herders of a bygone era that have been shown by modern science to be outdated, outmoded, and absolutely in error. Certainly not the stuff we can think of as ‘divine revelation.’” This…
Santa Claus is Real and so is Jesus
| December 11, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, General, Papers, philosophy, theism, theology |
Christian apologists are constantly asking skeptics and genuine seekers to hold to the question of God and Jesus the same standards of evidence they hold anything else. The question of Jesus being also a question of history, we are satisfied if non-biased standards of historical research were employed. Usually, it is the skeptics employing ad hoc standards based on priorly held beliefs about reality.
On this basis then, we see that one cannot dismiss the idea that there was really a man named St. Nicholas just because 350 years separates him from the (current) best sources. On that reasoning we’d have to ditch much of what we know about a great many historical figures, including big ones like Alexander the Great. So, let it be agreed: Santa Claus existed; it is a fact of history.
A Christian Review of Anne Rice’s Called Out of Darkness: a spiritual confession
| November 7, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, book reviews, General |
Anne Rice begins her book by laying out in careful detail what her early life was like. It was a life that was thoroughly drenched in the Roman Catholic Church and culture as it was practiced in New Orleans. She attended Catholic schools and had Catholic friends. At one point, she wanted to be a nun. She delighted in the architecture of New Orleans and her Catholic surroundings.
However, she fell away from all this after high school. Though the seeds had been planted earlier on, in college she came into contact with people who loved learning, were smart, and cared about doing the right thing- all without religion, Christianity, or Catholicism.
Presuppositional versus evidential apologetics and naturalistic bias
| May 9, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
I don’t very often get into debates about this but it did come up recently (by a person I make out to be an atheist no less) in the comment section of one of my blog posts. I’m not sure what his final purpose was… did he mean to convey that we really should assume…
Searching for the Atheist that Believes the Resurrection Happened
| May 7, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
A recurring theme of late is that even if you believed the resurrection happened, that would still not justify the inference that there is a God or that the resurrection was a supernatural event. There are some 500 posts or more (I kid you not) arguing about the ‘divine inference’ and a recent commenter has…
Short Story: Chronos and Old Facts
| May 5, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, Christian Short Stories, General |
Chronos and Old Facts A short story by Anthony Horvath COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The sign on the door read “Bureau for Decommissioned Facts.” I pushed the door open gingerly, almost sheepishly. My quest to find this heretofore unknown department of the Universal University was not merely a recent one, but one that was given…
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