Author Archives: Collin

Homosexuality and Moral Theology (Research Post)

By Collin | April 26, 2012

For my research paper, I am using an article by Charles E. Curran called Homosexuality and Moral Theology: Methodological and Substantive Considerations. This article examines the morality of homosexuality and the methodological approaches used when considering it.
The first things discussed are two important methodological questions about the discipline of moral theology regarding homosexuality: how [...]

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Personal Identity

By Collin | April 18, 2012

This week we talked about some metaphysics and personal identity. I want to discuss the idea of Multiple Man and his personal identity. Multiple Man has the ability to create perfect duplicates of himself. Each of the duplicates has exactly the same power as the original, and has independent thought, though the [...]

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Vagueness

By Collin | April 6, 2012

One of the things I find very interesting is the concept of vagueness. We were shown a picture of red gradient in class on Monday, and I thought it was a great example to use. At what point is the color not red anymore? We don’t really have an answer for that [...]

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Perfect Love

By Collin | March 30, 2012

I found Swinburne’s argument about perfect love interesting. He says perfect love requires something perfectly loving to love and be loved by, meaning if there is a perfectly loving divine being, then there are two perfectly loving divine beings. He then explains that perfect love requires sharing in loving and being loved by [...]

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

By Collin | March 23, 2012

The thought of this world being the “best of all possible worlds” is an interesting one. It kind of makes sense that if God is omnibenevolent, and since he chose this world of all the possibilities, this world must be the best of all the possible worlds. We must have some amount of [...]

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God is a liar

By Collin | February 22, 2012

In class we discussed the idea that Jesus is a liar and, thus, God is a liar. For this argument we are assuming that Jesus is the same as God, and that God is omniscient. If God is omniscient, then He knows all true propositions. If God is Jesus, Jesus should also [...]

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Atonement and Hell

By Collin | February 9, 2012

Sin is all around us; it’s inescapable.  If God really is all-loving, how could he banish us to Hell for the rest of eternity based on some little mishaps?  I thought Jesus died for us, to cleanse all people of their sins and undo the offenses we have committed.  And if this is true, is [...]

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Philosophical Theology: Atonement

By Collin | January 30, 2012

For this argument I will assume that God exists.  When God created us He must have made us with free will because it would not be worth it for Him to create beings that worked like machines do.  In doing so, He took the risk of us choosing to be good or bad; [...]

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