Category Archives: Faith

When ‘Street Epistemology’ met a real epistemologist

Posted on May 26, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

  I would love to write an extensive commentary on the discussion between Tim McGrew and Peter Boghossian but, for reasons I explained the other day, I’m unable to do so right now. Whether there’s even a need for me … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 5.4: “What if God told you…?”

Posted on April 17, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

At the end of my last post on this book analysis series I commented on Boghossian’s rather bizarre redefinition of the word ‘delusion’ and suggested that his usage of the word, together with his non-standard definition of ‘faith’, cannot possibly … Continue reading →

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Is Peter Boghossian pretending to know what he does not know?

Posted on April 16, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

I have already taken issue with Peter Boghossian’s misuse of the word faith but given some of his recent comments on the Phil Vischer show I think it’s worth showing once more how badly he misunderstands Christianity. Start by watching … Continue reading →

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Review of Boghossian’s ‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ by William Lane Craig

Posted on April 14, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

William Lane Craig has given his response to Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists and some of his comments from online lectures.  You can listen to it here at Reasonable Faith. Craig firstly takes issue with Boghossian’s contention that ‘faith’ is some … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 5.3: Is Boghossian authentic?

Posted on March 28, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

In my last piece on Street Epistemology I reiterated why Christians should strongly reject Boghossian’s misunderstanding of the word faith and not allow themselves to have something projected upon them which they simply don’t believe. I am still in chapter … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 5.2: Foundationalism and Faith

Posted on March 11, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

I am roughly (according to my kindle) one quarter of the way though this book and it’s taken a long time in coming but Boghossian begins talking about which epistemological school of thought he wants his Street Epistemologists (SEs) to … Continue reading →

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Christians defining faith

Posted on March 9, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

It has become a hallmark of modern atheism that it often attempts to redefine ‘faith’ to mean something Christians simply do not mean by the term. In contrast to those attempts, here are some Christian thinkers being permitted to say … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 5.1: Interventions and Strategies

Posted on February 28, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

This is a response to the first few pages of chapter 4 of Boghossian’s book entitled ‘Interventions and Strategies’. This chapter covers a wide range of matters to I am going to split my responses to this chapter into smaller … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 4: Epistemology

Posted on February 26, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

This is the fourth part of my analysis of Peter Boghossian’s book. For previous parts see here. After giving the potential Street Epistemologists (SE) some really misleading information about Christianity in chapters 1 and 2, he now proposes to give his … Continue reading →

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‘A Manual for Creating Atheists’ Part 3.5: Knowledge claims

Posted on February 7, 2014 by aRemonstrant'sRamblings

Between my last Boghossian post and this one it appears Peter might have seen my blog and some of my series so far. I was hopeful this might lead to a minor exchange (after all I’m yet to have ‘Street … Continue reading →

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