Thinking Christianly
with J.P. Moreland and Stan W. Wallace
Episodes
In this episode, we explore the nuances of religious epistemology, focusing on Internalism versus Externalism, and how these frameworks influence our understanding of how we know God. We discuss how Christian thinkers like Plantinga approach these issues, and how to evaluate who we can trust in the midst of complexity.
In this podcast we discuss:
- How do we understand the diffe...
In this episode, JP and Stan discuss the requirements and responsibilities of truth-seeking as rational beings created in God’s image.
In this podcast we discuss:
- What does our knowledge of reality have to do with our ability to live a meaningful life?
- Why is seeking truth considered a virtue?
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What does it really mean to say that we “know” something? In this episode, we begin a series on epistemology, the study of knowledge and reasonable belief.
In this podcast we discuss:
- What is knowledge (including knowledge about God)? Can we have it? If so, how? Can we be sure?
- What kinds of knowledge exist and how do we...
In our first-ever question-and-response episode, Stan and JP engage with listener questions about postmodernism, panpsychism, and enchantment.
In this podcast we discuss:
- How can adopting a broader, more holistic sacramental theology help us to understand the nature of reality?
- What is panpsychism, and why does the “Combinatio...
In this episode, we discuss more ways the realism/nominalism debate is having a dramatic impact on all we think and do as we wrap up our series on this important topic.
In these episodes, we discuss:
- Our culture’s confusion over what art is due to implicit nominalism
- How nominalism undercuts our knowledge of chemistry, biology, and ethics
- Ways in which nominalistic thinking seeps into our language and reinforces our con...
In this and the next podcast, we turn our conversation to points of application, discussing some of the ways the Realism/Nominalism debate is having a dramatic impact on all we think and do.
In these episodes we discuss:
- If beauty is really in the eye of the beholder
- Can there be justice for all if we are nominalists
- How these ideas shape the work of physicians and therapists
- The nominalistic assumption underlying Critical Th...
In this episode, we drill down further into how the Realist/Nominalist debate shapes our understanding of God with special guest and expert, Dr. Paul Gould.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- What is “Divine Conceptualism” and how does it relate to Moderate Realism?
- What are some of the intellectual resources we gain when we hold Platonist ideas about abstract objects and traditional theist understandings about God&rsqu...
In this episode, we continue exploring realism and nominalism by taking a deeper look into Nominalist beliefs.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- What does a person mean when they say they are a nominalist?
- How is nominalism a contributing factor to current cultural beliefs?
- What are the major distinctions within nominalism?
- How do moderate and extreme nominalists understand properties? What are the challenges inherent in these ide...
In this episode, we continue exploring the differences between Realism and Nominalism by discussing good reasons to hold a Realist perspective.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- What good reasons do we have to believe in abstract objects that we cannot see?
- How is it that we are intuitively aware of things we cannot see?
- Why do we naturally group things together? Is this “seeing” the universal they all share?
- What are ...
#45 – What Makes Things What They Are? The Realist/Nominalist Debate
In this episode, we kick off a series discussing the most fundamental issue underlying all other questions: what makes things what they are? How does a proper understanding help us live well and flourish in our world?
In this podcast, we discuss:
- Defining the two options: realism (universals exist) and nominalism (universals don’t exist)
- What is G...
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