Austin Hill and Scott Rae, The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets (Chicago, IL: Northfield. 2010) Capitalism’s reputation has taken a beating in light of the recent financial crisis. According to politicians and pundits from both sides of the spectrum, capitalism is to blame. Not so, say Austin Hill and Scott Rae, who [...]
Tags: Austin Hill, Bailout, Capitalism, Economics, Greed, Scott Rae
This is long overdue, but I am blogging through Greg Bahnsen’s Always Ready, a book intended to educate Christians on apologetics and more specifically to promote a particular methodology of defending the faith known as presuppositional apologetics. Even if you’re a non-believer, feel free to comment on this book as I go through each section. The plea [...]
Politics has always been something that I never really took an interest in. But since bioethics, one of my main interests, is often intertwined with political and jurisprudential issues, I figured that it was about time that I started studying it. Until recently, my main source of political knowledge came from television news stations such [...]
Greg Bahnsen (1948 – 1995) was an influential Christian apologist who got his PhD in philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is perhaps most remembered for his skilled debates with atheists like Dr. Gordon Stein, which gave him the title of being “the man atheists fear most”. In apologetic circles, he was recognized [...]
Seeing how the decade is almost over, I decided to put together a list of what I consider to be the decade’s top five books which defend the rationality of theistic belief. Though I have only been reading philosophy for the past two and a half years, I think this list is a pretty accurate [...]
