October 31, 2020
Hume's Polemic against Tillotson (and Friends) in "Of Miracles"
Interpreters of Hume's "Of Miracles" (section 10 of the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding) have often been puzzled about the purpose of Part 2 of the essay. It appears to many interpreters that Hume's argument in Part 1, if it works at all, must establish that it is impossible in principle for any testimony to yield rational belief in miracles. (For defense of this interpretation of Part 1, see, e.g., Robert Larmer.) The announced purpose of Part 2, however, is to argue that actually existing testimony of miracles is of poor quality. If Part 1 has established that no matter how...
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Authoritativeness
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David Hume
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Epistemology
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Faith
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Historical Thinkers
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John Tillotson
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Miracles
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Protestantism
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Roman Catholic Church
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The 'Reformed' Tradition
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The Church
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Theology
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March 30, 2017
Mark Hamilton on Idealism and Fallenness
Chapter 6 of Idealism and Christian Theology is "On the Corruption of the Body: A Theological Argument for Metaphysical Idealism" by S. Mark Hamilton. This is easily the best essay in the collection so far, and the most directly focused on the central issues the volume purports to address. Hamilton provides a carefully documented account of the ways in which mind-body dualism is presupposed by theologies of our post-lapsarian state of corruption in Reformed dogmatics from Calvin to the early 20th century. Jonathan Edwards, he shows, is an outlier with respect to this tradition. Hamilton enumerates a number of theological...
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Historical Thinkers
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Idealism/Phenomenalism
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Jaegwon Kim
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Jonathan Edwards
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Mark Hamilton
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Metaphysics
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Ontology
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Original Sin
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Philosophy
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Protestantism
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The 'Reformed' Tradition
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The Church
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Theology
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November 25, 2008
What the ESV is Good For
It's been a long time since I wrote much about Bible translation, but I thought I'd step up on this one. There has recently been a long series of posts on
Better Bibles Blog containing a paper Mark Strauss presented to the Evangelical Theological Society entitled
"Why The English Standard Version Should Not Become the Standard English Version." There is now a brief
response from
Bill Mounce, the New Testament Chair of the ESV translation committee.
I, on the one hand, agree with Strauss that some of the ESVs decisions make for misleading or awkward English text. On the other hand...
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