In Defence of Arguments from Desire Re-Defending Arguments from Desire: A Second Response to Gregory Bassham Peter S. Williams (September 2016) In C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015), Gregory Bassham and I debated the argument from desire (AFD). As with all of the debates in this volume (which Dr Bassham… Read more »
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Cardiff University “Does God Exist?” opening speech
download PDF Cardiff University Debate on ‘The Existence of God’ (February 2013) Opening Speech by Peter S. Williams My opening speech will offer a cumulative case of four arguments for theism. 1) A Moral Argument Coming to know that the earth goes around the sun was a matter of… Read more »
Five Arguments for Theism
download PDF Five Arguments for God – by Peter S. Williams 1) A Kalam Cosmological Argument At a recent conference honouring physicist Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday, atheist cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin affirmed that ‘All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.’[1] A New Scientist editorial on the conference… Read more »
Terror from the skies and the Existence of God
download PDF Terror From the Skies and the Existence of God (2001) by Peter S. Williams On Tuesday 11th September 2001, terrorists flew two hijacked jumbo jets into the World Trade Centre (and one into the Pentagon) causing death and destruction on an incomprehensible scale, on live TV. To consider the philosophical… Read more »
Archelogical Evidence and the Divinity of Jesus
download PDF Archaeological Evidence and the Divinity of Jesus Peter S. Williams – Philosopher in Residence at the Damaris Trust UK and Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Norway. ‘While the Council of Nicea had important consequences, its significance has been exaggerated into legend by… Read more »
Jesus the Exorcist (Peer Reviewed)
download PDF Jesus the Exorcist by Peter S. Williams “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” – Unnamed demon, (Mark 1:24). Synopsis The New Testament presents Jesus as, among other things, “an exorcist par excellence.”[1] Is… Read more »
Understanding the Trinity
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In Search of Innocence
download PDF In Search of Innocence Keywords: Human nature, innocence, heaven, consciousness Film title: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Inosensu: Kôkaku Kidôtai) Director: Mamoru Oshii Screenplay: Mamoru Oshii Distributor: DreamWorks SKG Cinema Release Date: 17 September 2004 (USA limited release); 28 October 2005 DVD Release date: 27 February 2006 (UK) Certificate: 15 (UK);… Read more »
Contra Grayling – A critique of “Against All Gods”
download PDF Contra Grayling A Christian Response to Against All Gods (Oberon Books, 2007) By Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, begins his self-described polemic against religion with a question and an answer: ‘Does Religion deserve respect? I argue that it… Read more »
Dawkins’ God Delusion Reviewed
download PDF Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, (Bantam 2006) Reviewed by Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) Richard Dawkins has been described as ‘materialistic, reductionist and overtly anti-religious.’[1] Nevertheless, The God Delusion – which is descended by design from the two-part television series The Root of all Evil?[2] – is his first book… Read more »