“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” ...
The History and Future of Apologetics Courses in Christian colleges: The Historiographical Challenges from Marc Bloch (1886-1944). By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA 2023 PESA Conference INTRODUCTION The paper is an examination on the history and future of...
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French...
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from...
The Wake-Up Message to the Head-in-the-Sand Culture-History Warriors…the world has changed and you are left at its margins, raging with no clear intelligence. You have become marginalised in understanding the new world, as you are marginalised in your poverty,...
As perspectivism -- that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be...
This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of...
Image: An image of Francis Schaeffer, http://www.pcahistory.org/images/schaeffer01.jpg on the Wikipedia entry site. INTRODUCTION James Fodor, Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity (Hypatia Press, 2018) is a very...
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the...