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May 2018
Chaos

Chaos

With mathematics properly contextualized, I want to enliven a small section of the discipline that is relatively young called chaos theory. Specifically, I want to examine the theory with a focus on the metaphysical problem of determinism.

Taylor Parra | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017

December 2016
A Defense of Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument from Contingency

A Defense of Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument from Contingency

Cosmological arguments attempt to demonstrate the existence of a deity based on the mere existence of the universe.

Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

October 2016
Rediscovering Aristotle, Aquinas, and Classical Theism

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

August 2016
The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

I have come to think that science and religion are complementary pictures of truth, answering the questions of ‘how?’ and ‘why?’

Vitaly Andreev | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

April 2016
The Suspense of Faith

The Suspense of Faith

But the doubt expressed by Arnold and Russell is not limited to those who decide finally to reject god.

Karl Johnson | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016

June 2015
John Lennox

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
And He Began to Teach Them Many Things

And He Began to Teach Them Many Things

An interview with Professor Matthew Harrison, who previously wrote an article called "Invited to Care" about his calling to teach mathematics to those in prison.

Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015

May 2015
Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

Imagine if a four-dimensional or higher being acted in our world as the three-dimensional being acted in Flatland.

Peter Chen | Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015
Towards a Divine Understanding of Beauty

Towards a Divine Understanding of Beauty

Beauty is a question that consistently plagued some of the most influential Christian thinkers in the early centuries of the church.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

March 2015
Invited to Care

Invited to Care

There is a tension in the criminal justice system between punishment and rehabilitation. Is it proper justice to educate murderers?

Matthew Harrison | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Fall 2014

December 2014
Does God Play Dice?

Does God Play Dice?

How could God (knowingly, deliberately) create a process that brings about outcomes that He Himself does not know and cannot predict?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014

October 2014
Why Apologetics?

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

July 2014
Cantor's Theorem (image illustrates Zeno's Paradox)

Cantor’s Theorem and Jesu

The Christological claim that Jesus is both human and divine at the same time is analogous to the claim that Jesus is both finite and infinite.

Drew Voight | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014

March 2014
String Theory, the Multiverse, and God

String Theory, the Multiverse, and God

It might seem that God and string theory, like Harry and Voldemort, cannot live while the other survives.

Tom Rudelius | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013

September 2013
Christian Materialism in Philosophy of Mind

Christian Materialism in Philosophy of Mind: Combining the Worldviews of Freud and Lewis

If there is a soul, why do mental states have a gradient quality? Why do animals have mental states approaching the same type as human beings?

Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2012

May 2013
Augustine Collective Retreat 2013

AC Featured in the Ivy League Christian Observer

Harvard Ichthus '14 staff Jihye Choi covers the 2013 Augustine Collective retreat, and discusses how the journals are fostering a national movement across colleges.

Jihye Choi | The Ivy League Christian Observer | Spring 2013

November 2012
Quantum Mechanics and Divine Action

Quantum Mechanics and Divine Action

Does God act in the physical world? If so, how?

Emily DeBaun | The Dartmouth Apologia | Winter 2011
Can We Talk

Can We Talk? America’s Troubled Science and Religion Conversation

How is it that ‘science' is allowed to toss its historical baggage, but religion must forever be defined by the ancient baggage carried by its least informed?

Karl Giberson | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2012

August 2012
God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths

God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths

It is peculiar enough that Christianity was once considered the more elegant worldview, and from this worldview came the rise of modern mathematics.

Willis Zhang | UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012
In Praise of Wonder

In Praise of Wonder

To believe Jesus’s words seems to simultaneously require foolishness and faith. In novelist Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy, it’s an old and learned priest who, when asked for his opinion on a miracle, smiles and says, “I don’t believe it’s possible. I do believe it happened.”

Inez Tan | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012

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