Faith and Reason Exchange

David and Adam continue their series on the reasonableness of Christianity. In this episode, they cover recent New Testament scholarship on the Gospels as biography and eyewitness testimony.   Some helpful resources: Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony    Richard Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography Show Notes: ·    ...

Is the New Testament reliable? David and Adam begin a new series addressing the question: Is it reasonable to believe in Christ? They start with the most basic question: Is the New Testament reliable? Some helpful resources: Fragments of Truth (a Documentary) Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (3 rd ed) John Warwick Montgomery, History, Law...

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This is the last episode in David and Adam's series on the philosophical and scientific reasons for believing in God's existence. The two take you through the argument from biology and the irreducibly complex and purposefully arranged information found in DNA to the existence of a designer.   For more detail from the leading proponents of this argument, see Michael Behe's  Darwin's Black Box and S...

David and Adam dive back into the details of the universe's fine tuning, explain alternative theories (e.g. multiverse theory) to the one advanced by intelligent design, and discuss the implications all this has for the theistic worldview.   "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork" (Psalm 19:1).   Show Notes: ·       The book David and Adam keep referring t...

David and Adam are back at it, exploring the ramifications of philosophy and modern science on the question of God's existence. They begin with a brief conversation about what it means to be a critical realist and then hone back in on Big Bang cosmology while introducing the notion of what is often described as the fine-tuning of the universe. Show Notes: ·       The book David and Adam keep refer...

David and Adam begin their series on the various arguments for (and reasons to believe in) God's existence. This episode begins with a little history behind the cosmological argument followed by a conversation about the implications of a contingent universe.   Show Notes: ·       1517 Podcast Survey ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·    ...

David and Adam discuss how reason's competence (with respect to the Christian tradition) has changed over the centuries. Plato and Aristotle, medieval schoolmen like Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, and modern thinkers such as René Descartes and Charles Darwin are all discussed to set the stage for subsequent episodes addressing the reasonableness of belief in God's existence.   Show Notes: ·...

What is fideism? David and Adam define fideism and discuss its problematic place in the epistemology of much contemporary Christian thought.     Show Notes: ·       1517 Podcast Survey ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·       1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: ·       Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org ·       2023 HWSS Conference L...

David and Adam bring some nuance to the issues surrounding faith and reason by discussing the different ways the terms are used (and misused) in academic and popular discourse. Show Notes: ·       1517 Podcast Network Survey ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·       1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: ·       Faith and Reason Exchange @...

What does faith have to do with reason? In this first episode of the Faith and Reason Exchange, David and Adam introduce themselves and their work after which they discuss the relationship of faith and reason. They begin by reflecting on the common assumption and, sometimes, accusation that faith and reason have nothing to do with each other and conclude, after a wide-ranging discussion, that the...