Wednesday, July 03, 2019

How reason leads to God

http://joshualrasmussen.com/secret_files/interview.pdf

Josh Rasmussen may be the most gifted up-and-coming philosophical theologian. In my experience, he's a better philosopher than theologian. I'm not sure that he has an evangelical center. But some of his stuff can be incorporated into a Christian apologetic. There's a presuppositional quality to his work.

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  1. In my experience, he's a better philosopher than theologian. I'm not sure that he has an evangelical center.

    If I recall correctly, in one of his facebook posts he wrote he was (to some degree) sympathetic towards the position of Universalism and then linked to this paper by Keith DeRose:
    http://campuspress.yale.edu/keithderose/1129-2/

    He even lists DeRose's paper in the bibliography in one of his own papers (page 190):
    https://books.google.com/books?id=hNydDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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    1. Recently I finished one of the best books I've read that attempts to refute Universalism [and Annihilationism] and argues for the Calvinist option. David Clotfelter's book, "Sinners in the Hands of a Good God: Reconciling Divine Judgment and Mercy" (amazon link). Clotfelter's book is especially persuasive because he shares his own flirtation with Universalism early on in his Christian life when he was enamored by George MacDonald's works. Then goes about refuting his own earlier Universalistic convictions.

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