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Macneil's Guide for the Spiritually Perplexed

Macneil’s Guide for the Spiritually Perplexed

November 29, 2020
Michael Macneil
How I unapologetically explained the Christian God to thoughtful, foreign, Muslim and Hindu student housemates when I was 21. A PDF version of this book is found here.... Read More
COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus: God’s Blessing or Satan’s Curse?

COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus: God’s Blessing or Satan’s Curse?

April 19, 2020December 1, 2020
Michael Macneil
Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils — William Blake c.1826 Estimated 6 minute read One of the biggest questions we can ever ask as Christians is who is behind a catastrophic world event like COVID-19,... Read More
Is COVID-19 a sign of Jesus’s imminent return and the Rapture of the Church?

Is COVID-19 a sign of Jesus’s imminent return and the Rapture of the Church?

April 12, 2020November 28, 2020
Michael Macneil
This is a reprint (with a small prologue and addendum) of an article I wrote for a previous publication which I feel is particularly appropriate as a response to some of the speculation in the Christi... Read More
Should I Obey my Government - Civil Disobedience in the COVID-Era

Should I Obey my Government – Civil Disobedience in the COVID-Era

March 1, 2020December 1, 2020
Michael Macneil
The question I pose is a question that needs to be asked particularly when “obedience” or “submission” to the will of the government is being presented as a moral and civic duty – both perso... Read More
Abraham Kuyper, Culture and Art

Abraham Kuyper, Culture and Art

December 13, 2017February 25, 2021
Michael Macneil
Abraham Kuyper [1] (b.1837, d.1920) was described in a recent publication ‘as one of those rare intellectuals who actually led a popular movement.  He thought it not enough just to articulate a wor... Read More
Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy

Scripture and the Post-Darwinian Controversy

June 14, 2015January 24, 2021
Michael Macneil
Has the importance of the concepts of biblical inerrancy and infallibility changed for evangelical Christians today when compared to the end of the 19th Century? If so, why? At the end of the 19th cen... Read More
Augstine and Plantinga on the Problem of Evil

Augstine and Plantinga on the Problem of Evil

April 29, 2015December 26, 2020
Michael Macneil
Augustine, otherwise known as St Augustine, is said to have returned “again and again, over a period of nearly half a century” to the “problem of evil” and is credited with clearly definin... Read More
The Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil

April 26, 2015December 26, 2020
Michael Macneil
The Logical Problem of Evil if God is Good, Omnipotent and Omniscient – How Can He Allow Evil? John Polkinghorne in developing the scientifically responsible apologetic that he has spent his pos... Read More
Wittgenstein and Religious Language

Wittgenstein and Religious Language

May 8, 2014December 27, 2020
Michael Macneil
Discuss the relationship between Wittgenstein’s rejection of the anti-metaphysical stance of logical positivism and his account of religious language in his later philosophy Wittgenstein’s tho... Read More
Descartes showed there was no need for God in philosophy

Descartes showed there was no need for God in philosophy

January 27, 2014December 27, 2020
Michael Macneil
With reference to Descartes’ key philosophical ideas and with particular reference to Descartes’ Discourse on the Method and related metaphysical works, discuss and critically assess this ... Read More
Orality and the Welsh Revival 1904-1906

Orality and the Welsh Revival 1904-1906

May 29, 2012December 29, 2020
Michael Macneil
“Orality” is defined as “interaction with the world by means of the spoken word” and contrasts with “conceptuality” which is defined as “interacting with the world by means of ideas and ... Read More
Fundamentalism as a modernism

Fundamentalism as a modernism

November 6, 2011December 29, 2020
Michael Macneil
Fundamentalism is often conceived of as a reaction against modern, secular society.  This essay argued the opposite – it is a form of modernism but a modernism distinct from secular modernism.... Read More
If we cannot prove the claims of religious belief, is it nevertheless reasonable to believe these claims?

If we cannot prove the claims of religious belief, is it nevertheless reasonable to believe these claims?

February 20, 2011December 29, 2020
Michael Macneil
This is an introduction to the Reformed Epistemology (RE) movement that was particularly associated with the philospher Alvin Plantinga. Plantinga was interested in establishing the grounds on which a... Read More
Christianity and Postmodernism

Christianity and Postmodernism

August 19, 2007January 10, 2021
Michael Macneil
Postmodernism is an amorphous term that started to appear in the middle of the 20th century and was first applied to a particular school of Art that rejected the normal and conventional conceptions of... Read More
Kant's Moral Argument for the Existence of God

Kant’s Moral Argument for the Existence of God

December 9, 2006January 3, 2021
Michael Macneil
Immanuel Kant  (1724 – 1804) is considered by many philosophers to be one of the most important of Western philosophers, if not the most important.  His Critique of Pure Reason (1781, 2nd edi... Read More
Hume and the Argument from Design

Hume and the Argument from Design

November 14, 2006January 3, 2021
Michael Macneil
David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scots philosopher who developed empiricism in opposition to the continental Rationalism.  More than any other thinker of his time, perhaps with the exception of Immanuel ... Read More
Kant's Criticism of the Ontological Argument

Kant’s Criticism of the Ontological Argument

October 17, 2006January 3, 2021
Michael Macneil
The ontological argument is considered unique amongst arguments for God’s existence because it is the only argument that can be classified as an a priori argument.  By this we mean the sequence of ... Read More

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