The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Friday, September 30, 2011

From the Archives: Norman Malcolm's Ontological Argument

Because I wasn't able to get to a discussion of it in my philosophy of religion class this week, I'm posting on this blog the main p...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

For the Bible Tells Me So

This evening I will be leading a discussion of the documentary film, For the Bible Tells Me So , on the OSU campus. In case you're local...

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Of Heaven and Triathlons

I was thinking about heaven over the weekend. More precisely, I was thinking about how Christians should envision heaven. Let me try to ...

Friday, September 23, 2011

Love, Freedom, Universalism...and Abortion.

In his blog post today , Richard Beck has offered a beautifully accessible and compelling case for universalism in the form of a critique of...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Foundationalisms

On what should we base our beliefs? "Reason and evidence," some are inclined to reply. Sure. Fine. But what is reasonable, and wha...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Hegelian Foundationalism

Some comments on my last post (mostly received in private correspondence) suggest that my use of the term “epistemic foundationalism” was a ...

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Cherry Picking Problems

Greta Christina thinks religious progressives have a cherry-picking problem . Since I launched this blog with a response to her infamous po...

Monday, September 12, 2011

The Gods of September 11

Over the last week or so I’ve heard more than one person say that September 11 has served our generation as a vivid reminder of the reality ...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ten Years Later

This morning, while my wife swam in the Tall Chief Open Water Challenge, I walked along the shore with my kids. At one point I saw my son ju...

Friday, September 9, 2011

The Hegelian Dialectic: Escaping the Problem of the Criterion

My last post was a reposting of an archived essay on evidentialism--one which I replayed partly as a springboard for considering some relat...

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About Me

Eric Reitan: Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.

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