And now we come to yet another milestone for this blog, Incinerating Presuppositionalism, as we reach the 14th anniversary since its inception. As I always do on IP’s birthday, I have listed the entries that I published over the past year below. All for your convenience, my dear readers!
I mentioned last year that I have numerous, mounting constraints on my time and energy, thus limited the forces that I can bring to blogging. We all have only 24 hours in a day, and with a demanding career in coordinating covert halo drops over doily-refurbishing plants in far away countries while trying to keep up with the exhausting schedule of a gymnastics-loving tween, I’m sure you can appreciate I’m one busy dude.
But don’t let that for a moment give you the impression that a dent has been made in my passion for writing and contra-apologetics. This is my version of a blood sport, and it’s every bit as brutal as anything that you’ll see on the gridiron or 1950s gladiator movies. At the very minimum, it requires a willingness to enter the ring and hone a wide range of intellectual skills. That’s one of the prime draws for me in maintaining IP: like composing a six-voice fugue or untangling a knotted slinky, it takes great patience, focus and discipline. And who couldn’t use a little more of either of these? I know I can!
At any rate, here’s the list of entries I crafted over the past year, all in one handy source in case you’ve missed any of them:
447. Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Thirteen - March 26, 2018
448. Existence and Perception - April 28, 2018
449. Edward Feser on Ayn Rand - May 27, 2018
450. The Futility of Theodicy - June 28, 2018
451. The Disgruntled Apologist - July 28, 2018
452. The Burden of Proof - August 29, 2018
453. Parsing the Haysian Square-Circle - September 26, 2018
454. Is Human life really “futile” without a god? - October 29, 2018
455. Faith and Imagining - November 26, 2018
456. Are the Gospel Crucifixion Scenes Eyewitness Accounts? - December 16, 2018
457. The Metaphysics of Wishing - January 5, 2019
458. Steve Hays’ Invisible Friend - February 20, 2019
459. The Speeches in Acts: History or Legend? - March 10, 2019
From the standpoint of specifically Christian apologetics, I’d say that the most damning post in this past year’s batch of entries is probably December 2018’s Are the Gospel Crucifixion Scenes Eyewitness Accounts? But I must say, I’m quite satisfied with the rest as well. So, go figure!
Now, while I do have a backlog of entries in various stages of progress, I am open to taking “requests” if readers encounter arguments or topics that I haven’t addressed already. Of course, they should be relevant to apologetics, but not necessarily presuppositionalism specifically. That said, this does not necessarily mean that I’ll take the request. No request can so easily be expected to translate into a guarantee. But don’t let that discourage you if you think you have some good suggestions.
by Dawson Bethrick
I mentioned last year that I have numerous, mounting constraints on my time and energy, thus limited the forces that I can bring to blogging. We all have only 24 hours in a day, and with a demanding career in coordinating covert halo drops over doily-refurbishing plants in far away countries while trying to keep up with the exhausting schedule of a gymnastics-loving tween, I’m sure you can appreciate I’m one busy dude.
But don’t let that for a moment give you the impression that a dent has been made in my passion for writing and contra-apologetics. This is my version of a blood sport, and it’s every bit as brutal as anything that you’ll see on the gridiron or 1950s gladiator movies. At the very minimum, it requires a willingness to enter the ring and hone a wide range of intellectual skills. That’s one of the prime draws for me in maintaining IP: like composing a six-voice fugue or untangling a knotted slinky, it takes great patience, focus and discipline. And who couldn’t use a little more of either of these? I know I can!
At any rate, here’s the list of entries I crafted over the past year, all in one handy source in case you’ve missed any of them:
447. Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Thirteen - March 26, 2018
448. Existence and Perception - April 28, 2018
449. Edward Feser on Ayn Rand - May 27, 2018
450. The Futility of Theodicy - June 28, 2018
451. The Disgruntled Apologist - July 28, 2018
452. The Burden of Proof - August 29, 2018
453. Parsing the Haysian Square-Circle - September 26, 2018
454. Is Human life really “futile” without a god? - October 29, 2018
455. Faith and Imagining - November 26, 2018
456. Are the Gospel Crucifixion Scenes Eyewitness Accounts? - December 16, 2018
457. The Metaphysics of Wishing - January 5, 2019
458. Steve Hays’ Invisible Friend - February 20, 2019
459. The Speeches in Acts: History or Legend? - March 10, 2019
From the standpoint of specifically Christian apologetics, I’d say that the most damning post in this past year’s batch of entries is probably December 2018’s Are the Gospel Crucifixion Scenes Eyewitness Accounts? But I must say, I’m quite satisfied with the rest as well. So, go figure!
Now, while I do have a backlog of entries in various stages of progress, I am open to taking “requests” if readers encounter arguments or topics that I haven’t addressed already. Of course, they should be relevant to apologetics, but not necessarily presuppositionalism specifically. That said, this does not necessarily mean that I’ll take the request. No request can so easily be expected to translate into a guarantee. But don’t let that discourage you if you think you have some good suggestions.
by Dawson Bethrick
5 comments:
Dawson,
Here's what I was hanging on the edge of my seat for:
"But don’t let that for a moment give you the impression that a dent has been made in my passion for writing and contra-apologetics."
That's great to hear — and also that you're taking requests!
Thanks for another great year and happy fourteenth!
Ydemoc
Thanks Dawson for another great year of blog posts! I am still looking for you to respond to Douglas Wilson's mantra that if we are just chemicals "fizzing" then how can one claim truth over another. He brings this up in almost every debate and I have seen other apologist copy him.
Here's to many more years!
Thanks Dawson keep going!
Hello all,
Sorry for the absence, and thanks for your kind remarks!
Joe, I'll have a new entry up tomorrow on Wilson's fizzing remarks. Once you've read it, please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions in the comments.
Regards,
Dawson
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