Justice in Pain, Suffering, and Silence

Throughout Martin Scorsese's Silence, we begin to question why God allows pain for even those seeking to work for God or in the very least let us hear His voice instead of just silence.

Bryan Lee | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2018

Who Do You Say That I Am? – Pseudo-Dionysius on the Divine Names

In brief, the problem of understanding the divine names is the problem of discovering how a superhuman significance could possibly dwell within a language that has developed squarely within the boundary lines of human realities and human concerns.

Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015

Conversations that Change Minds

How can we facilitate meaningful dialogue between people with differing ideological beliefs?

Ronald Davis | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018

The Greater Miracle

Hume says that because experience is infallibly linked to natural reality, testimony cannot cast even a shadow of doubt on sensory information, and the two cannot epistemically oppose each other.

Hope Chang | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016

Interview with N. T. Wright: The Reality of the Resurrection and the Mission of the Church

"If you believe that the evidence for the resurrection to be compelling, why do you think so many people nonetheless reject it?"

The Dartmouth Apologia Staff | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016

Proving the Existence of God: Defending Descartes’ Causal Argument

Descartes’ work offers an enlightening perspective on the commonly spouted claim that Christianity is a game of blindness.

Jessica Tong | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016

A Picture Not a Copy: Gadamer Helps Us Honor Art (And Each Other)

At the beginning of Truth and Method Gadamer attempts to rehabilitate art as not merely an aesthetic experience, but as a genuine mode of knowing truth.

Michael Mullaney | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2016

The Strongest Argument Against Christianity

I think that the strongest argument against Christianity can be made by comparing modern Christians with the Bible.

James Frederick | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Self, Society, and the Trinitarian Posture

The Christian understanding of human nature instead presents a picture that merges collectivism and individualism into one coherent whole.

Amanda Wang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016

A Q&A with Gary Habermas

"The basic idea here is that because Jesus was buried in Jerusalem, and that this is also where the apostolic preaching began, critics would simply need to walk over to the tomb to determine whether it was empty, or whether it contained the corpse of a crucifixion victim."

Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017

Peace in Toil

The Christian worldview presents a framework for work that resolves many of the issues which arise from Stoicism and Materialism.

Samuel Ching | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

How to Reject Jesus

There are a number of approaches to rejecting Jesus Christ as being God. I have chosen the four I find most common and most natural to assert.

Bobby Peretti | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Reconciling Faith and Reason

Biblically, faith is defined as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” It is noteworthy that in both definitions of faith mentioned, there involves a certain element that extends beyond human perception.

Sarah Liu | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Veritas Forum: Selfish Genes, Generous Soul?

Columbia Prof. Hughes then asked UNC Chapel Hill Prof. Sethupathy how there could be no evidence of God. The universe, to Hughes, didn’t seem to require a God.

Crystal Ren | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015 (blog)

Everything Under the Sun is Absurd

Since July, I have been reading The Plague, by Albert Camus, alongside an older member of my home church. We discuss parts of the book through the lens of Christianity, and one topic which recurs over and over is the absurd.

Michael McGinnis | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2016

Can God and Free Will Coexist? Examining the Augustinian Solution

If God knows what is going to happen in the future, and his power necessarily brings this event into being, then it seems like all events occur independently of human agency.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Rediscovering Aristotle, Aquinas, and Classical Theism: an interview with Edward Feser

A former atheist, Dr. Feser converted back to the Catholicism of his youth after an extensive study of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought and philosophy.

The Dartmouth Apologia | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection? Three Hypotheses

I’m a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, and today, I am celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. So are dozens of my colleagues. How can this be?

Ian Hutchinson | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

Finding Meaning in a Mysterious World: A Guide to Following the Religious Sense

Our religious sense, so defined earlier as our valences towards mystery, narrative and transformation, plays a critical role in our quest to find meaning in life.

Alex Wyvill | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2016

The Dilemma of Faith in a Secular Age

Likewise, ours is an age in which believers and non-believers alike struggle with doubt about whether our beliefs are indeed the right ones.

Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

Review of How (Not) to be Secular by James K. A. Smith

How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is what the author himself, James K. A. Smith, calls “your hitchhiker’s guide to the present.”

Nicholas Chuan | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2015

The Problem of Evil: An Ichthus Roundtable

In addition to our own thoughts, we provide links to a wide variety of pieces on the problem of evil by professional philosophers.

The Harvard Ichthus Staff | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015

The Veracity of the Gospels

Questionable historicity and copying practices are listed as reasons why students should not believe that the Gospels give us a legitimate view of Christ.

Titus Willis | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2015

God in Mathematics and Philosophy: An Interview with John Lennox

People often ask me, “What is the probability that God exists?” I say to them, “What is the probability that you exist?”

Luke Dickens and Stephanie Liu | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

Harvard Ichthus Answers 200 Questions About God At Texts-4-Toasties

"Forty students volunteered to deliver toasties, answer questions [about Christianity], cook, and man the computers in our three stations in Thayer Basement, a Pfoho kitchen, and the Leverett Rabbit Hole."

Augustine Collective | The Harvard Ichthus |

Can Science Replace God?

Much of modern debate between atheists and theists has centered on a purported conflict between science and religion.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

The Universe: Magical, Meaningful, and Modern

Can a materialistic, physicalist account of the universe answer the fundamental questions of our existence—what does it mean to be human?

Marylynne Sitko | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Why Apologetics? An interview with David Skeel

Rather than assuming that most people hold loosely Christian views, or trying to demonstrate that non-Christian views have no foundation, I focus on how Christianity explains the world as we actually experience it.

Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

Does Divine Mercy Contradict Divine Justice?

If justice is giving what is due and mercy is overlooking what is due then it appears that justice and mercy really are contradictory.

Danielle D'Souza | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

Rebellion Against the Bible?

There are four general strains of reasoning that argue for the reliability of the Bible: internal consistency, archaeological evidence, manuscript evidence, and logical extrapolation from history.

Dabin Hwang | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013

In Defense of Miracles

While a thorough defense of theism is outside of the scope of this article, let us quickly consider some of the arguments for theism and against naturalism.

Rachel McKee | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

A Defense of the Argument from Motion

When I was first introduced to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways, I was unimpressed. I was a junior attending Catholic high school, and, at the time, I did not believe in God.

Greg Brown | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014

Why Study Theology?

An understanding of different religions is important in a world where theological beliefs enter into the political field on a regular basis.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

The Church Fathers and the Rationality of Christianity: An Interview with Dr. Sara Parvis

Clement of Alexandria complained that his fellow Christians thought of philosophy as some kind of ogre and ran screaming when they heard it.

Dr. Sara Parvis, Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013

A Reflection on the Ontological Argument

Wrapping our heads around the idea that “to exist is better than to not exist” is critical to our faith.

Charles Min | Princeton Revisions | December 2013

A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion

[Dawkins] believes that a God who created the universe would be too complex a beginning to be the most probable cause of the universe.

Yesuto Shaw | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

Keep Asking

In the absence of a story that connects us to what is going on around us, we find that any sort of yearning for purpose is quickly replaced by a frenzied and arbitrary pursuit of desires. The Christian faith leads us elsewhere.

Roshni Patel | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012

A Response to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason

Thomas Paine, a famed Revolutionary political activist and Founding Father, is also remembered for his attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud in his pamphlet Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.

Suiwen Liang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

The Divine Attributes: Why an Imperfect God Just Won’t Do

Yoram Hazony’s version of apophaticism restricts theists to a kind of fideism, wherein our rational concept “God,” a human construct, is radically divorced from the subject of our faith, the non-conceptual, personal God. The result is confused, even contradictory.

Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013

A Lament for Skepticism

It seems to be a common assumption that religious believers are somehow irrational for holding the beliefs that they do. The claim, simply put, is that there just isn’t enough (or any) convincing evidence for the truth of many Christian beliefs, such as the belief in God, especially in light of the discoveries of modern science.

Enoch Kuo | Princeton Revisions | Summer 2013

When Things Stop Making Sense

At the very least, I hope to convince you that the philosophy of materialism is not at all obvious, and should not be accepted unquestioningly. After all, why should electrons go whizzing around subject to mysterious mathematical laws?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

Why Ask Why?

It is not my point to argue here, only to ask. Is Christianity a philosophical system? Or is it a way of life? Both? Or something else altogether?

Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

The New Apologetic

The New Apologetic is actually old—as old as the church. It is, quite simply, orthodoxy, in all its depths and richness.

Peter Blair | Fare Forward via Patheos |

Whom Are We Friends with and Why?

As the ancient philosophers recognized the ease with which we can settle for less from our relationships, the current cultural context challenges us, diverts us from what it means to have a true friend and be one.

Hannah Jung | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1

Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the Goodness of God

One of the most persistent issues in the philosophy of religion has been the origin of our concept of “moral good.”

Brendan Woods | The Dartmouth Apologia | Winter 2011,Volume 5 Issue 1

Is Anything Worth Believing In? A Review of a Conversation with John Lennox

God could have easily made a universe in which bad things didn’t happen. However, Lennox argues that “the one thing you will not get in an automated, robotic, computerized universe is love, relationship, and so on... In order to have the possibility of love or relationship, you must create the possibility of choice.”

Sarah Banks | The UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 01, Spring 2012

A Review of The Meaning of Life: A Short Introduction

Perhaps we are making the false assumption that the question, “what is the meaning of life?” can have an answer like “what is the meaning of the word ‘apple’?” does. What do we really mean when we ask, “what is the meaning of life?”

Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 7, Number 4, Winter 2011

Rembrandt, Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law

Reflections on the Nature of Faith

Faith is unscientific (not anti-scientific) in the sense that much of the knowledge claimed by faith is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. Christian faith seeks to obtain knowledge in the context of love and trust, not to function as a substitute for reason.

Henry Waller | Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2012, Volume 6, Issue 2

Mustard Seed Faith

Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon which describes our tendency to seek out information that confirms our opinions and beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts what we believe. I take a lot more time on each page when I’m reading C.S. Lewis compared to Richard Dawkins.

Andy Morgosh | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012

Recovering the Metaphysical Character of Truth

Since materialism, scientism, and relativism are popular positions in the academy today, many may not find Descartes’ legacy in these areas troubling. There exists, however, another, crucial error produced by Descartes’ philosophy that is obviously problematic, namely the artificiality of knowledge.

Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2012, Volume 6, Issue 2

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