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C. S. Lewis on Why Heaven is a Better Tourist Destination Than Hell

I’m giving a talk on C. S. Lewis next week at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando! The argument I’m making there is similar to part of my introduction to Strange Religion and also discussed … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on March 10, 2024March 10, 2024Tags C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Theology

Outsider Theology Reconsidered

I’ve argued that religious outsiders can write theology and be theologians. I still believe this to be true. But I was recently on a panel at a con that explored the intersection of science fiction/fantasy and religion. One of … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on August 21, 2023August 31, 2023Tags Christianity, Scripture, Theology

How Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language Complicates Protestant Salvation

One of the members of a Lutheran Bible study group I attend recently said some unkind words about Catholics. That encouraged me to think up a theology that would allow for the salvation of Catholics while implying the damnation of … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022Tags Christianity, Language, Philosophy, Wittgenstein

Biblical Inspiration and God’s Trustworthiness

We’ve determined that God’s trustworthiness can’t be assumed because of how the Bible portrays His character. He does not deceive wantonly, but He has no qualms about deceiving His opponents to further His goals.

How are we to know that … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on May 28, 2021May 28, 2021Tags Christianity, Theology1 Comment on Biblical Inspiration and God’s Trustworthiness

Alchemy and Mud: Arguments in Fiction

I’m regularly surprised when my readers spy ideology lurking in my writing, as if the presence of an argument or even a sensitive topic in a work of fiction is proof that the author is trying to seduce the reader … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on December 22, 2020December 23, 2020Tags Christianity, Theology, Writing

God As Executive (To Whom We Can Say Nothing)

We construe transcendent God through analogies: God as a loving father, a just or cold-eyed judge, a suffering savior, as Jesus of the Gospel, as victor over Death, as jealous tribal god of the Hebrews, as (war)lord of hosts… Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on November 28, 2020November 28, 2020Tags Aristotle, Christianity, Religion, Theology

The Fine-Tuning Argument for God

Before I discuss the Argument from Moral Knowledge further it’s helpful to explain why I think the Fine-Tuning Argument for God isn’t so great an argument. Why the detour? I read other arguments for God that turn on our relationship … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Christianity, Islam

Examples of Backwards Causation

We tend to believe that all causation is forwards; a cause must temporally precede its effect. But there are some delightful examples of at least possible backwards causation. Even if all they do is demonstrate the ridiculousness of backwards causation, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020Tags Buddhism, Causation, Christianity, Philosophy

I Must Admit That Some People Believe in God

I am beginning to believe that some people actually believe in God. It’s astonishing, isn’t it? Somehow I gather I should have figured it out sooner.

I have some excuse. I was raised United Methodist, the Northern variety, not the … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on May 19, 2020December 15, 2021Tags Christianity, COVID-19, South Asia

God, Author of the Bible

In “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Jorge Luis Borges playfully suggests through an unreliable narrator that Don Quixote could have been written twice, once by Miguel de Cervantes in the seventieth-century and again by a fictional French … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 20, 2020April 25, 2020Tags Bible, Christianity, Religion, Scripture

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