Thank you for this! Gathering all these resources must have been quite the undertaking. I didn’t fully realize what this post was until I started scrolling through it. This is a great gift for jumping off into researching any number of topics. My nine year old son if asking a lot of questions and we are preparing for him to be baptized. He is very bright and inquisitive and several of these will help me answer his questions.
You may, if I have not missed it, add something for the existential argument for God. Other than that, it seems to be pretty complete. However, I will write on some of these topics too, eventually on all of them maybe, and thus may be able to add details. At the moment I am mainly engaging with LGBTQ* and inner-Christian metaphysics, but after that, and after I finished Leibniz book on that, I am collecting my notes to the Theodicee. The problem of evil is very interesting to tackle, and I shall first consume the material for it in your article.
Thanks! Would Kierkegaard be the best source for existential arguments?
A friend of mine once confessed jokingly, "I wasted hours in my teens reading William Lane Craig only to find that the #1 argument against God was 'why gay people'"
It is the only existentialist that hasn't fallen off the deep end I know of, but just because classical arguments are more custom to me. But since my grandpa read him too, he can't be too bad, and from all I saw myself so far I agree. I am just reading him for the first time, however, and haven't finished the book yet.
And yes, for most people the true arguments against God are rather simple. The one I was told was "When I pray, why do I not hear Him answer me?" Of course, these are all very valid given they are coming from an honest heart, but they do not belong to the set of difficult questions.
Very true. Intellectual questions and grief are two completely different things.
I love what I've read of Kierkegaard. But I once heard someone say that he never would have written if he'd known everyone would bite the bullet and choose despair.
I made that observation as well, that some hearts seek God as their seemingly natural disposition while others would not accept Him even if it means inventing a whole new philsophy or vanishing in despair. It would be interesting to see why that is. I cannot or want not (as of right now) believe that people are born like that, so, is it because their relationship with authority? Or is it because behind all the intellectual arguments, there is a personal problem with God they hide, and maybe are not aware of themselved, which is the real problem? Or something else?
Thank you for this! Gathering all these resources must have been quite the undertaking. I didn’t fully realize what this post was until I started scrolling through it. This is a great gift for jumping off into researching any number of topics. My nine year old son if asking a lot of questions and we are preparing for him to be baptized. He is very bright and inquisitive and several of these will help me answer his questions.
That's so great! Kids his age ask the BEST questions. William Lane Craig published a little logic workbook if you think your son would be into it!
Thanks! I’ll check it out
This shall prove very useful. Thanks.
I hope it is! Let me know if there is some way I can improve it. I know one can't exactly go through it at a glance.
You may, if I have not missed it, add something for the existential argument for God. Other than that, it seems to be pretty complete. However, I will write on some of these topics too, eventually on all of them maybe, and thus may be able to add details. At the moment I am mainly engaging with LGBTQ* and inner-Christian metaphysics, but after that, and after I finished Leibniz book on that, I am collecting my notes to the Theodicee. The problem of evil is very interesting to tackle, and I shall first consume the material for it in your article.
With wishes of blessings,
Justus.
Thanks! Would Kierkegaard be the best source for existential arguments?
A friend of mine once confessed jokingly, "I wasted hours in my teens reading William Lane Craig only to find that the #1 argument against God was 'why gay people'"
It is the only existentialist that hasn't fallen off the deep end I know of, but just because classical arguments are more custom to me. But since my grandpa read him too, he can't be too bad, and from all I saw myself so far I agree. I am just reading him for the first time, however, and haven't finished the book yet.
And yes, for most people the true arguments against God are rather simple. The one I was told was "When I pray, why do I not hear Him answer me?" Of course, these are all very valid given they are coming from an honest heart, but they do not belong to the set of difficult questions.
Very true. Intellectual questions and grief are two completely different things.
I love what I've read of Kierkegaard. But I once heard someone say that he never would have written if he'd known everyone would bite the bullet and choose despair.
I made that observation as well, that some hearts seek God as their seemingly natural disposition while others would not accept Him even if it means inventing a whole new philsophy or vanishing in despair. It would be interesting to see why that is. I cannot or want not (as of right now) believe that people are born like that, so, is it because their relationship with authority? Or is it because behind all the intellectual arguments, there is a personal problem with God they hide, and maybe are not aware of themselved, which is the real problem? Or something else?
Well, I need to rest now, God bless.
Fantastic! This is a keeper.