Category: Theory
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The Principles of Reading Order: A Research Program
Abstract: Much of education may be reduced to a sequencing problem: Given a set of books, in what order should they be read? This question admits of surprisingly rigorous treatment. We can identify
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Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum: Update and Invitation
We are well into our study of Aristotle in the Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum (STP), my reading group in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. This is hard, but essential to our task. But, you
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A Harmony of the Passion Story
The following is a new “synthetic” Harmony of the Gospels—covering the passion story through the end of all four gospels. Following the harmony itself I will give notes on how I prepared this,
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What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?
This is the longest answer I wrote, in the first month of writing for Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum, commenting on Plato’s Laws, Book X, 893b–899d. We’re about to start Aristotle’s two arguments for a Prime
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Why should Christians read philosophy?
Yesterday, I launched an online seminar in which we will read a bunch of philosophy of religion, as well as the more philosophical and apologetic parts of theology. When I told my wife
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A Historical Bibliography of Philosophy of Religion (according to LLMs, edited by humans)
This was generated by LLMs with a few additions and corrections by me (and you, I hope). I looked it over and corrected anything I thought wrong and improved anything needing improvement; but
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Should we affirm sola fide?
Note: This essay on the nature of faith and salvation was originally posted as part of a much longer series. Because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did
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Plan for a Public Notebook
Some background My strange career began with academia and a little college teaching, and then a series of knowledge and education startups and consulting stints. I have rarely been short of interesting opportunities,
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Is the Filioque legitimate, or a corruption?
Note: This essay was originally posted as part of a much longer series. I think that because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did not get
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The Meaning and Main Texts of Christmas
As many people now seem to claim Christmas as a kind of “spiritual but not religious” holiday—most not believing that Jesus is God—the actual significance of the Advent and Incarnation has become opaque.
