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2 months ago | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
In last month’s installment, I discussed how Good God came about, which turned out to be the first book in a tetralogy on the moral argument. As we drew near to finishing the book, it dawned on us that we would need to spend more time considering secular efforts to explain morality. We did it all too briefly in Good God, so we planned to write a second volume, which some years later we did, called God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning (OUP, 2016).
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
conservativereview.com | David Baggett
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
theblaze.com | David Baggett
One of the advantages of having New Testament scholar Robert Gagnon as a friend is getting a text in which he casually points out that in 2 Corinthians 6, the apostle Paul mentions 10 difficult circumstances, followed by nine phrases describing a kind of challenging scenario in which Paul shows endurance.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
In this month’s installment, I said I would share a few observations about each chapter in my dissertation on the Euthyphro Dilemma. The dissertation was an early version of the book Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Ethics that Jerry Walls and I published with OUP in 2011. So what we find in the dissertation is a precursor to the first book in the tetralogy Jerry and I would end up writing.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
So I said that in this installment I would begin to discuss my dissertation. Writing a dissertation is a daunting task. For many, it’s the first real test of whether or not one can rise to the occasion in graduate school and produce something of an original work in one’s field. The prospect of failing seems to hang heavily in the air. I remember perusing the finished, bound dissertations from previous students in my program in the department’s library and reminding myself it could be done.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
As I started attending graduate school in philosophy at Wayne State University in 1994, the Euthyphro Dilemma was on my mind. Does God, say, command something because it is moral, or is it moral because God commands it? I knew I wanted to write on this topic in my dissertation, but that would be a few years on. First I had to do a fair bit of coursework. Wayne State’s philosophy program was a rigorous one, treating graduate students like they need a broad exposure to all the branches of philosophy.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
Chris Reese has asked me to write a series on the moral argument, and I’m happy to oblige. In fact, since recently wrapping up a tetralogy on the subject with Jerry Walls, I was asked by another to consider sharing my reflections about the work that’s occupied me for the last fifteen years. Lessons learned, bumps along the way, insights gleaned, mistakes committed, and the like. So perhaps it’s just the right time to do so. I have decided to take the liberty to talk about it biographically.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
One of the advantages of having New Testament scholar Robert Gagnon as a friend is getting a text in which he casually points out that, in 2 Corinthians 6, the apostle Paul mentions ten difficult circumstances, followed by nine phrases describing a kind of challenging scenario in which Paul shows endurance.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
My wife and I recently listened to the eight-part podcast entitled “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,” hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
worldviewbulletin.substack.com | David Baggett |Chris Reese
I teach in an apologetics department, but I’m trained as a philosopher. My background is also a largely secular one. I attended public school growing up, a state university for my undergrad degree (in philosophy), and my doctoral studies in a state university (also in philosophy). Perhaps in part due to these reasons, sometimes when I hear folks talk about apologetics, it doesn’t resonate with me.
