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Gary Chartier, Love as "Appropriate Regard for Wellbeing" and Original Sin

I keep thinking about the discussion we at the Roy Branson Legacy Sabbath School had with Gary Chartier last Sabbath (March 25, 2023) about “Original Sin” and other things.  This was in connection with Chapter 8 in his recent book Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral Life (Fortress Press, 2023).  The title of this chapter is “Creational Love, Sin and Virtue.

Ellen White's "Biblical Fiction"

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Steve Daily on Ellen White: An Excellent Book Review by Andres' Reiss

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Review of Turner, Philip. "Christian Socialism: The Promise of an Almost Forgotten Tradition." Forward by Stanley Hauerwas. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2021.

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Reinder Bruinsma on "Desmond Ford: Christian Profiles in Courage: Loyalty and Responsible Dissent"

"Genesis, Science and Theology: Some Thoughts of My Own"

Video: Francis Schaeffer on "American Evangelicalism and its Roman Catholic Allies"

Unlivable Beliefs of Atheistic Neo-Darwinism

 

Necessarily, Essentially, Neither or Both: How Does God Love the Universe [in Process Theology and Free Will Theism]?

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David Griffin, Traditional Free Will Theism and the Ten Core Doctrines of Process Philosophy

Thoughts on "Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion" by Philip Clayton [Yale University Press: 1989. ix + 230 pages]

 

Natural and Religious: Ellen G. White and Ann Taves' Interpretation of Dissociative Religious Experiences

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Alfred North Whitehead on Mind and Matter (Hand Out)

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The Bible as "Classic" and "Canon" in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)

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Body and Soul in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)

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Freedom and Determinism in Christian Ethics (Hand Out)

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Normative Theories in Christian Ethics: Four Primary Clusters (Hand Out)

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George R. Knight on the Historical Inaccuracies in the Book "Questions on Doctrine"

Ellen G. White and the Amalgamation of Man and Beast: A Response to Three Proposals by TJoe Willey

Academic Freedom and the Irreducible Pluralism of the Moral Life

QAnon and Religions as "Meaning Maps"

 

Those Behind "The Veil of Ignorance" in John Rawls' "Hypothetical Original Position" Are Not Greedy Ghosts

Donald Trump's Tax Cut and John Rawls' "Difference Principle"

Neither "Equality of Outcome" nor "Equality of Opportunity" but "Equity ["Fairness"] of Opportunity"

Answers to Questions About My Career

 

Four Reasons Why the Idea of "Christian" Ethics Make Sense

Cultural and Culinary Diversity: Some Parallels

Constantinianism's Error: Not Endorsing "Sunday" but "Endorsing" Sunday

Sigve Tonstad on God's Coercive or Persuasive Power in the Book of Revelation

Against Christian Exclusivism: Papal and Protestant

 

Coercive or Persuasive Power: Which Is Stronger?

 

The "Fallacy of Inevitability" in Both Postmillennialism and Premillennialism

Perfect Fear Casts Out Love

Why Christians Cannot Believe in Type A Miracles

 

 

Did Loma Linda University Help Finance "Prophetess of Health?"

"Sola Scriptura" is Not for Me!

A Comment on Matthew 5:48: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

Who Started the Branch Davidian Fires at Waco? Another Response to Kenneth G. C. Newport

Is the Christian Canon "Closed?"

What's Really Eating Biblical Literalists

An Untested Public Philosophy

"Believer Beware!"

Profiles of Stewardship in the Bible and Ecological Ethics Today

 

 

Are Patriarchy and Misogyny Necessarily the Same?

Gerald Winslow's Survey of Issues in Dental Ethics Tempts Dark Thoughts About the Morality of Some Insurance Companies

 

Mayo Clinic Ethicist Joan Henriksen Hellyer Addresses the Care of Friendless Terminally Ill Patients

 

Christianity and Different Types of Premodernism

 

 

From Codes to No Codes: Loma Linda University Alumni Postgraduate Convention Wrestles with Bioethical Themes and Cases

David McAvoy Chooljian, Medical Futility and the Clinical Possibility of Committing the Naturalistic Fallacy