Tag Archives: Relativism

The Image of God Under Attack

The image of God in humans is under attack. Evolutionary doctrine leads many thinkers to conclude that there is no essential difference between us and and any other organism. (By “evolutionary doctrine,” I am referring specifically to the version of evolutionary theory that says all organisms have come to be through blind, unguided processes of …

January 28, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (19)

Why We Need Worldview Education

Bless Bill O’Reilly for trying, but Dawkins wins this big-time, especially from 2:27 to 3:00: The reason he wins is simple: he is right and O’Reilly is wrong. How many of us would make the same mistake? A 2008 Pew Forum poll found that 57% of evangelical church attenders believe there are multiple ways to …

January 31, 2011 – 8:54 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Tagged , | Comments (8)

The Essential Missing Prologue To All Apologetics

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

The practice of Christian apologetics faces a new and mostly unrecognized hurdle. Although this hurdle’s pieces and parts are familiar to apologists and worldview thinkers, few have recognized their full implications. It is the new fundamental obstacle to listeners’ and readers’ saying “yes” to Jesus Christ and to Christianity, so much so that for many …

December 13, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (14)

Chocolate and Caring, Brussels Sprouts and Murder

Much of the discussion about ethics revolves around an analogy to matters of personal preference. doctor(logic) recently said, Morality bears all the hallmarks of something subjective, like taste in food or taste in art. And also, My argument is that, unlike the objective sciences, morality has no more basis for objectivity than the things we …

December 19, 2009 – 1:17 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments (110)

Moral Relativism: Idolatry In Our Generation

This post differs from many others on this blog in that I am going to base it on my settled belief in the God of the Bible, and not try to make an argument this time in favor of that belief. In other words, you will agree with this or not based on your existing …

December 11, 2009 – 10:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments (59)

The Philosophical Midwife: What are we to do tomorrow?

From Franklin Mason: Thus if we cling to our moral views – as we ought and should – we reveal that we are not relativists. If we know what we are to do tomorrow – and we do – we are not relativists. The Philosophical Midwife: What are we to do tomorrow?

September 8, 2009 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments Off

A True-False Test for Moral Relativists

There are two groups of people in the world: those who divide the world into two groups of people, and those who do not. No, really, there are two groups of people in the world with respect to moral opinions: moral realists and moral relativists. Broadly speaking, moral realists believe that there are at least …

June 30, 2008 – 10:45 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , | Comments (223)

“Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today”

Truth In the Fire I have written appreciatively twice of Dallas Willard lately. Now I turn to his article, Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today: Publications: The Independent Institute. Originally delivered as a lecture ten years ago at the C.S. Lewis Centennial at Oxford University, this paper springboards from Lewis’s …

June 22, 2008 – 8:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Do We Really Know It’s True?

I gave this talk at Seaford Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Some portions have been edited out because they’re not applicable to a wider audience.

May 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Views of Truth

This talk on Views of Truth was given on March 9 to the Chapel at Kingsmill. I regret that I had no control over the recording method–the microphone was far from the front of the room, so there’s room noise. It’s still audible and listen-able in spite of that, though.

March 25, 2008 – 3:06 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)