Randal Rauser's Blog, page 18
June 20, 2022
Progressive Christians, Evangelicals, and Alisa Childers: A Conversation with Joshua Swamidass
Joshua Swamidass recently appeared on Capturing Christianity to discuss progressive Christianity and offer some criticisms of my book Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too. In this video, I take up the discussion with Swamidass further: ?
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June 19, 2022
Progressive Christians and a Reformed Critic
This article is a response to a review of my book Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too from a critic, a young Reformed scholar named Colton Hinson. I appreciate Hinson reading the book and sharing his thoughts though I do not think he establishes his central claim that “Rauser’s lines are too far left and that […]
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June 18, 2022
Progressive Christianity: An Interview
An interview I did on the Philosophy for All YouTube channel on the topic of progressive Christianity. ?
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Does Progressive Christianity Lead to Atheism?
Evangelical critics of progressive Christianity like Mike Winger and Alisa Childers regularly claim that people who become progressive Christians are more likely to become atheists. But most of those who begin to call themselves progressive Christians came out of an conservative evangelical Christianity that they eventually found to be no longer defensible. Like a leaky […]
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June 17, 2022
Why Doesn’t Josh Swamidass like Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too?
Yesterday, Capturing Christianity hosted Joshua Swamidass for a conversation in which Swamidass provided a response to my book Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too and the wider progressive/evangelical conversation. In this article, I’m going to provide a bullet-point response to aspects of the conversation. I look forward to speaking with Swamidass about this in the future […]
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June 14, 2022
Why It Matters Whether Christianity is Intellectually Respectable: Quick Reflections on the Debate
My debate with Dan Barker was on the question “Is Christianity intellectually respectable?” I argued the affirmative. My method was simple: offer a definition of “intellectual respectability” and provide good evidence that Christianity has met the definition. To that end, I pointed out that “respectability” is a social concept referencing positive social status. The qualifier […]
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June 13, 2022
Is Christianity Intellectually Respectable? A Debate with Dan Barker
My latest debate. This one is with atheist Dan Barker on the topic “Is Christianity intellectually respectable?” ?
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June 5, 2022
Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 3): Coming to Terms with Experience
In this third installment of my critique of Mike Winger, I point out that his derision of the role of experience in theological reflection is fundamentally misguided: experience inevitably informs how we all think theologically. ?
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June 4, 2022
Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 2)
In this second installment of my Mike Winger critique, we focus on 2 minutes of his video as I point out several instances of fallacious and inconsistent reasoning and a consistent lack of charity in his analysis. ?
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June 2, 2022
Mike Winger’s Bad Teaching on Progressive Christianity (Part 1)
YouTuber and pastor Mike Winger has amassed an impressive following on YouTube in part due to a series of critiques of progressive Christianity. In this video, I begin a careful analysis of one of those critiques. ?
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