Faith and Reason Exchange (1517 Podcasts)
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| 08 May 2024 | Is faith without reason dead? | 00:36:22 | |
David and Adam explore the role that reason plays in a life of faith lived in today's world. (This episode was recorded months ago. S there will be some overlap with more recent ones. Nonetheless, it's still worth a listen.) Show Notes: More from the hosts: | |||
| 14 Feb 2024 | Are there ontological strings attached to methodological naturalism? | 00:38:53 | |
David and Adam discuss what is often called methodological naturalism and whether or not it is presumes a naturalistic ontology or worldview. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 18 Oct 2023 | Is the New Testament reliable? | 00:41:10 | |
Is the New Testament reliable? David and Adam begin a new series addressing the question: Is it reasonable to believe in Christ? They start with the most basic question: Is the New Testament reliable? Some helpful resources: Fragments of Truth (a Documentary) Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (3rd ed) John Warwick Montgomery, History, Law and Christianity David Andersen, Faithless to Fearless: The Event that Changed the World Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts: | |||
| 26 Jun 2024 | Evidence and belief | 00:41:49 | |
Do we have an obligation to find and furnish evidence for our beliefs? David and Adam reflect on W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" (1877). Here is the article alluded to in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 17 Apr 2024 | Christians in the political arena | 00:43:19 | |
David and Adam reflect on the Christian disposition toward politics in general and American politics in particular. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 10 Jul 2024 | Secularism | 00:43:02 | |
David and Adam discuss secularism and its challenges. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 12 Oct 2023 | Dr. Stephen C. Meyer on Intelligent Design (Bonus Episode) | 00:50:27 | |
For more on Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, see https://stephencmeyer.org/. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts: | |||
| 13 Dec 2023 | The basics of Islam | 00:40:13 | |
David and Adam continue their conversation about Islam, venturing beyond the issues raised about in the Regensburg lecture (see season 2, episode 1). They discuss the religion's basic doctrine and some of its parallels and contradictions with Christianity. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: | |||
| 02 Oct 2024 | The problem of evil | 00:48:13 | |
David and Adam were joined by Dr. Lex Newman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, to talk about the problem of evil. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 16 Oct 2024 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Harvard speech (1978) | 00:38:39 | |
David and Adam reflect on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous commencement address at Harvard University in 1978. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 03 Dec 2024 | Fueling the Mission: Supporting 1517 to Proclaim the Gospel | 00:32:54 | |
Support 1517 This Giving Tuesday This is Caleb Keith, director of the 1517 Podcast Network. Today, as many of you may know, is Giving Tuesday. On this special day, I have a question for you: Does this podcast bring Jesus and His Gospel of peace into your life on a regular basis? At 1517, our mission—and the mission of the 1517 Podcast Network—is to declare and defend the Good News that we are forgiven and free through the death and resurrection of Christ alone. Because of Jesus, God has made peace with you and continues to actively give you His peace. You can give by visiting 1517.org or by following the link in the show notes. | |||
| 05 Feb 2025 | Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 6 | 00:45:16 | |
David and Adam continue talking through Chesterton's Everlasting Man. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 25 Oct 2023 | The gospels as biography and eyewitness testimony | 00:41:14 | |
David and Adam continue their series on the reasonableness of Christianity. In this episode, they cover recent New Testament scholarship on the Gospels as biography and eyewitness testimony. Some helpful resources: Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony Richard Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts:
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| 08 Jan 2025 | Chesterton, Everlasting Man 2 | 00:42:48 | |
David and Adam continue their conversation on The Everlasting Man, only making it to the end of chapter 1. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 05 Jun 2024 | Epistemology and apologetics | 00:43:00 | |
David and Adam talk about the epistemologies and apologetics of Mormonism, Islam, and Christianity. Show Notes:
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| 15 May 2024 | Sex, gender, and feminism with Dr. Abigail Favale | 00:39:26 | |
David and Adam talk with Dr. Abigail Favale (of Notre Dame University) about sex, gender, and feminism. You can purchase her outstanding books here. We highly recommend The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 13 Sep 2023 | Reason through the ages | 00:42:19 | |
David and Adam discuss how reason’s competence (with respect to the Christian tradition) has changed over the centuries. Plato and Aristotle, medieval schoolmen like Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, and modern thinkers such as René Descartes and Charles Darwin are all discussed to set the stage for subsequent episodes addressing the reasonableness of belief in God's existence. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · Faith in the Face of Tyranny More from the hosts: | |||
| 30 Oct 2024 | Christianity and politics | 00:45:16 | |
Some reflections on Christianity and political order as well as Christians and politics days before the 2024 US elections. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 19 Aug 2023 | What does faith have to do with reason? | 00:41:09 | |
What does faith have to do with reason? In this first episode of the Faith and Reason Exchange, David and Adam introduce themselves and their work after which they discuss the relationship of faith and reason. They begin by reflecting on the common assumption and, sometimes, accusation that faith and reason have nothing to do with each other and conclude, after a wide-ranging discussion, that the two are inseparable. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment by Bradley Gray More from the hosts: | |||
| 11 Dec 2024 | What is theology? | 00:44:01 | |
What is theology? Is it akin, adjacent, or perhaps inimical to philosophy? How does it relate to a worldview? All these questions and more are addressed by David and Adam in this episode of Faith and Reason Exchange.
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| 06 Mar 2024 | Early Christian Heresies: Marcionism | 00:40:53 | |
In this episode, David and Adam talk about the second-century heresy of Marcionism. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 16 Nov 2023 | Evolution, irreducible complexity, and the demise of Darwin's theory with Dr. Michael Behe | 00:42:46 | |
Biochemist Dr. Michael Behe joins David and Adam in this special episode of the Faith and Reason Exchange where they talk about Dr. Behe's life's work demonstrating the failure of Darwin's theory of evolution and promoting the theory of intelligent design. For more on Dr. Behe's work, see https://michaelbehe.com/. To purchase Dr. Behe's books on amazon.com, click here. * We will return to our series on the reasonableness of Christianity next week. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts: | |||
| 03 Jan 2024 | Ideology in a woke age | 00:42:04 | |
This episode introduces the topic of our next few episodes, where David and Adam discuss woke culture and ideology. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 03 Jul 2024 | The death of God and loss of human dignity | 00:44:40 | |
David and Adam talk about Friedrich Nietzsche's parable of the madman and its implications for thinking about morality and ethics. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 28 Aug 2024 | Athanasius and the incarnation | 00:42:47 | |
David and Adam discuss the life and times of St. Athanasius (d. 373), especially his classic work On the Incarnation. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 06 Sep 2023 | What is fideism? | 00:40:32 | |
What is fideism? David and Adam define fideism and discuss its problematic place in the epistemology of much contemporary Christian thought.
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| 10 Apr 2024 | Has atheism run its course? | 00:41:15 | |
David and Adam reflect on some recent comments from the leading atheist Richard Dawkins and raise the question: has atheism run its course? (You can watch the full interview with Dawkins on LBC here.) Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 25 Sep 2024 | Flannery O'Connor | 00:41:28 | |
David and Adam were joined by Dr. Erik Ankerberg, President of Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor, in a conversation about the literature of Flannery O'Connor. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 24 Jan 2024 | G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Part 1 | 00:39:50 | |
David and Adam begin a series on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. This episode covers chapters 1-3. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 27 Sep 2024 | Remembering John Warwick Montgomery | 00:21:04 | |
David and Adam reflect on the influence of John Warwick Montgomery, who died in France on September 25 after a long life spent defending the truthfulness of the gospel, advocating for basic human rights, and teaching the Christian faith. May he rest in peace! | |||
| 18 Dec 2024 | Finitum non capax infiniti? | 00:40:29 | |
David and Adam discuss the problems and ramifications of the infinite Son of God becoming finite human flesh at Jesus' nativity. Here is a link to the essay David mentioned towards the end of the show: http://www.laici.va/content/dam/laici/documenti/donna/bibbia/english/Mary%20in%20the%20OT.pdf.
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| 19 Jun 2024 | The bed of Procrustes | 00:34:43 | |
David and Adam use an old Greek myth as the starting point for a conversation about confirmation bias and other shortcomings to understand and make sense of things. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 20 Mar 2024 | Early Christian Heresies: Ebionites and Arians | 00:41:04 | |
In this episode, David and Adam talk about the Jewish-Christian Ebionites (and their adoptionist Christology) and begin to introduce Arianism. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 20 Nov 2024 | Thinking about non-apologetic challenges to Christianity | 00:38:48 | |
David and Adam think about challenges to communicating the gospel and Christian truth that aren't initially apologetic in nature. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 01 Nov 2023 | A case for the resurrection, part 1 | 00:45:19 | |
David and Adam begin to build a case for the resurrection of Jesus using minimal and uncontested facts from history—beginning with the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Some helpful resources: David Andersen, Faithless to Fearless: The Even that Changed the World Gary Habermas, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts:
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| 25 Dec 2024 | A short Christmas episode | 00:30:31 | |
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| 27 Sep 2023 | A finely tuned cosmos and its implications | 00:41:59 | |
David and Adam are back at it, exploring the ramifications of philosophy and modern science on the question of God’s existence. They begin with a brief conversation about what it means to be a critical realist and then hone back in on Big Bang cosmology while introducing the notion of what is often described as the fine-tuning of the universe. Show Notes: · The book David and Adam keep referring to is Stephen C. Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis. · Also see Alister McGrath’s A Fine-Tuned Universe and Darwinism and the Divine. · The Nobel Prize winning astronomer Adam mentioned was Arno Penzias. On the evidence we have from the universe, he commented: “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole.” · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · Faith in the Face of Tyranny More from the hosts: ·
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| 27 Dec 2023 | Apologetic methodology | 00:39:44 | |
David and Adam talk about the primary methods of Christian apologetics--focusing on evidentialism and presuppositionism. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 21 Feb 2024 | St. Paul at Athens (Acts 17:16-34) | 00:42:14 | |
Luke's Acts of the Apostles tells the story of the earliest Christians. The second half of the book centers on the evangelistic (and apologetic) activity of St. Paul. In this episode, David and Adam talk about Paul's trip to the birthplace of philosophy--Athens--and the stoic and epicurean philosophers he spoke to on Mars Hill. (We encountered some audio issues in this episode. Most of it was rectified in the processing of editing, although we are aware there are a few seconds-worth of glitches in the first five minutes of recording.)
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| 22 Nov 2023 | The deity of Jesus and the resurrection | 00:41:04 | |
The first Christians believed Jesus was Lord and God. This episode explores how this could be given the monotheism of Judaism. The only explanation, David and Adam argue, is the fact of the resurrection.
Some helpful resources: Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel Martin Hengel, Studies in Early Christology
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| 11 Sep 2024 | Evil, Error, and Other Things | 00:41:10 | |
David and Adam discuss the origin of evil, the source of theological error, and some other things. Enjoy. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 29 May 2024 | Some resources for thinking about faith and reason | 00:41:59 | |
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| 17 Jan 2024 | C.S. Lewis's "The Poison of Subjectivism" | 00:38:31 | |
David and Adam reflect on C.S. Lewis's "The Poison of Subjectivism". You can find the essay at: https://williamwoodall.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/2/10226906/the_poison_of_subjectivism.pdf. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 27 Nov 2024 | Thinking about non-apologetic challenges to Christianity, part 2 | 00:48:08 | |
David and Adam continue their conversation about challenges to communicating the gospel and Christian truth that aren't initially apologetic in nature. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 04 Dec 2024 | Original sin | 00:35:20 | |
David and Adam discuss the doctrine of original sin in the context of modern anthropological optimism. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 12 Jun 2024 | God and God-talk | 00:44:19 | |
David and Adam reflect on the parable of the invisible gardener, which John Wisdom (1904-1993) and Antony Flew (1923-2010) developed to illustrate epistemological and linguistic issues associated with theology. Show Notes:
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| 24 Apr 2024 | Truth in a post-truth age | 00:39:19 | |
David and Adam reflect on the nature of truth in a post-truth age while discussing the controversy concerning Uri Berliner, NPR, and its new CEO. Here's the article that started the controversy: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust. Katherine Maher's full TED talk is available here: https://youtu.be/r2gsj0EEE3I?si=WZXKmqXS-XG1ez7L. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 07 Aug 2024 | The genetic fallacies of Freudian and Marxist critiques of theism | 00:42:16 | |
David and Adam discuss the genetic fallacy, the logical fallacy that underpins Freudian and Marxist criticism of belief in God's existence. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 24 Jul 2024 | Theology as science | 00:39:52 | |
David and Adam discuss John Warwick Montgomery's essay, "The Theologian's Craft". Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 31 Jul 2024 | ETs and exotheology | 00:37:56 | |
David and Adam tackle the question: would the discovery of extraterrestrials falsify Christianity? Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 12 Feb 2025 | Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 7 | 00:45:54 | |
Faith and Reason Exchange: David and Adam are still in the first half of Chesterton's masterpiece, but they are closing in on "The End of the World"--the last chapter before the incarnation of God in a cave. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 07 Feb 2024 | G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Part 3 | 00:43:34 | |
David and Adam finish their series on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. This episode covers the last four chapters. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 14 Aug 2024 | The cost of ignoring the past | 00:42:56 | |
David and Adam discuss the problems associated with severing ties with the past. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 22 Jan 2025 | Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 4 | 00:38:49 | |
David and Adam talk through chapters 3 and 4 of Chesterton's Everlasting Man. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 09 Oct 2024 | Further reflection on the problem of evil | 00:42:10 | |
David and Adam reflect further on the problem of evil. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 23 Oct 2024 | Does the church owe the world an apology? | 00:27:00 | |
This is our conversation from the podcast pre-conference at Here We Still Stand 2024 in San Diego, CA. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 28 Feb 2024 | Early Christian Heresies: Docetism/Gnosticism | 00:45:41 | |
David and Adam begin a new miniseries covering the major Christian heresies that preceded the Council of Nicaea (AD 325). Today's episode looks at Docetism, which is an expression of a Greek spiritualist philosophy known as Gnosticism. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 04 Oct 2023 | Part Two: A finely tuned cosmos and its implications | 00:41:52 | |
David and Adam dive back into the details of the universe’s fine tuning, explain alternative theories (e.g. multiverse theory) to the one advanced by intelligent design, and discuss the implications all this has for the theistic worldview.
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork” (Psalm 19:1).
Show Notes: · The book David and Adam keep referring to is Stephen C. Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis. · Also see William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology. · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · Faith in the Face of Tyranny More from the hosts: | |||
| 03 Apr 2024 | He is risen indeed! | 00:43:22 | |
David and Adam reflect on the significance of Jesus' resurrection for Christian faith and life. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 04 Sep 2024 | Why Christianity? | 00:43:13 | |
With so many religions and spiritualities on offer, why Christianity? David and Adam discuss this and other questions related to the thinking that goes into religious preferences. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 31 Jan 2024 | G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Part 2 | 00:41:37 | |
David and Adam continue their series on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. This episode covers chapters 4 and 5. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 27 Mar 2024 | Arianism, Nicæa and Constantinople | 00:43:20 | |
In this episode, David and Adam conclude their brief overview of the heresies that preceded and led to the ecumenical councils of Nicæa (325) and Constantinople (381). Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 01 Jan 2025 | G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 1 | 00:40:14 | |
David and Adam start the year with a new series on G.K. Chesterton's masterpiece, The Everlasting Man. This episode covers the book's historical and intellectual background. You can purchase a copy here. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 20 Dec 2023 | The logos in Greco-Roman and Christian thought | 00:37:42 | |
David and Adam finish their conversation about the Regensburg lecture. This time, however, they talk about the concept of logos in the history of Greco-Roman and Christian thought and its culmination in the person and work of Jesus. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 22 May 2024 | Realism and nominalism through the ages | 00:42:16 | |
This episode covers realism, nominalism, and much more in under 40 minutes. So, put on your rubber boots (or wellies), for it's about to get deep, but not too deep. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 01 May 2024 | Being Christian in academia | 00:41:55 | |
David and Adam recall their time as students and professors in higher education and discuss the issues associated with being a Christian in academia today. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 10 Jan 2024 | Wokeism, part 2 | 00:39:47 | |
David and Adam continue the discussion on woke culture and ideology. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 08 Nov 2023 | Faithless to fearless: The resurrection and the conversion of the apostles | 00:44:42 | |
David and Adam continue their conversation about the historical reasons for believing in Jesus' resurrection from the dead. On the conversion of the apostles, see David Andersen, Faithless to Fearless: The Even that Changed the World. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts: | |||
| 21 Aug 2024 | Is the gospel true? | 00:43:20 | |
The answer to this episode's title is a resounding "Yes!" But what does that mean? Dave and Adam discuss God's incarnation incarnation in Christ Jesus, the transformative power of the gospel, and whatever else comes to mind. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 20 Sep 2023 | Contingency, the cosmos, and God's existence | 00:43:06 | |
David and Adam begin their series on the various arguments for (and reasons to believe in) God’s existence. This episode begins with a little history behind the cosmological argument followed by a conversation about the implications of a contingent universe.
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| 17 Jul 2024 | Realism and antirealism in science | 00:42:32 | |
This is a heady but interesting and worthwhile episode. David and Adam talk about some of the basic ontological assumptions of science and the implications they have on theology and faith. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 11 Oct 2023 | Evolution, information, and design | 00:39:19 | |
This is the last episode in David and Adam’s series on the philosophical and scientific reasons for believing in God’s existence. The two take you through the argument from biology and the irreducibly complex and purposefully arranged information found in DNA to the existence of a designer. For more detail from the leading proponents of this argument, see Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box and Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell. Also, you may be interested to read how the “world’s most notorious atheist” (Anthony Flew) changed his mind about the existence of God (based in large part upon the overwhelming evidence of design in the human genome). That can be found here: There is a God. And finally, after this episode was recorded David and Adam were fortunate to connect with one of the leading proponents of Intelligent Design theory—Dr. Stephen C. Meyer. Their conversion will be available as a bonus episode tomorrow. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · 2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup · 2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! More from the hosts:
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| 29 Nov 2023 | Some final observations on the evidence for the Christian faith | 00:40:18 | |
David and Adam have spent the last two and half months exploring both the philosophical and scientific evidence for God's existence and the historical evidence for the resurrection and deity of Jesus. The case for both is strong (and your hosts have only really scratched the surface). Even so, unbelief persists. In fact, the data from every relevant survey suggests it is on the rise. This episode reflects on this issue--that despite the evidence, Christianity is still regarded as something akin to a cleverly devised myth--and offers some observations on how Christians might continue to bear witness to the faith in the public arena. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||
| 13 Nov 2024 | Minimal facts apologetics | 00:47:14 | |
David and Adam talk about the merits of minimal facts Christian apologetics. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 29 Jan 2025 | Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 5 | 00:38:55 | |
David and Adam continue talking through Chesterton's Everlasting Man. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 06 Nov 2024 | Science, Theology, and Metaphysics | 00:44:19 | |
David and Adam dive deep into the limits of science in view of theology and metaphysics. Here is the article they refer to at the beginning: https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/barron/stephen-hawking-great-scientist-lousy-theologian/. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 15 Jan 2025 | Chesterton, The Everlasting Man 3 | 00:42:07 | |
David and Adam talk through chapter 2 of Chesterton's Everlasting Man, climbing down a few rabbit holes along the way. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts:
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| 30 Aug 2023 | Defining faith and reason | 00:43:06 | |
David and Adam bring some nuance to the issues surrounding faith and reason by discussing the different ways the terms are used (and misused) in academic and popular discourse. Show Notes: · The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts What’s New from 1517: · Faith and Reason Exchange @ Apple Podcasts · Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org More from the hosts:
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| 18 Sep 2024 | Faith seeking understanding | 00:44:03 | |
David and Adam discuss the concept of "faith seeking understanding" in the historic Christian tradition. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 13 Mar 2024 | Faith, Reason, and Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Francis Beckwith | 00:39:40 | |
David and Adam talk with Dr. Francis Beckwith about faith and reason, natural law, and theology in view of one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the catholic tradition, Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Beckwith's book Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant explores these and other topics in more detail and in a way that is helpful for protestants who wonder about this fascinating medieval theologian. You can find all of Dr. Beckwith's books here. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517:
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| 06 Dec 2023 | Ratzinger, voluntarism, and Islam | 00:43:42 | |
Nearly two decades ago, Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) delivered what is often called the Regensburg lecture. Though it was meant to rekindle the relationship between faith and reason (or science and theology) in higher education, much of the world—or at least the Muslim majority world—got distracted by a brief reference he made to a fifteenth-century dialogue about Islam, its theological voluntarism, and the consequences of such a view of God. This episode marks the beginning of a conversation on the Regensburg lecture. For the text, formally titled “Faith, Reason and the University”, click here. If you are interested in the controversy it generated, Wikipedia is a good place to start. Enjoy. Show Notes: What’s New from 1517: More from the hosts: | |||