PDF Slide Decks INTRODUCTION to Contemporary Atheism Introduction (pdf) POPULAR ATHEISM Popular Atheism 01 Introduction (pdf) Popular Atheism 02 Rhetorical (pdf) Popular Atheism 03 Scientific (pdf) Popular Atheism 04 Philosophical (pdf) NEW ATHEISM Answering the Apostles of the New Atheism (pdf) ACADEMIC ATHEISM Academic Atheism 01 Responding to The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Pt. 1 (pdf) Academic Atheism 02 Responding to The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Pt. 2 (pdf) Academic Atheism 03 Responding to The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Pt. 3 (pdf) Academic Atheism 04 Responding to The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Pt. 4 (pdf) Academic Atheism 05 Responding to The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Pt. 5 (pdf) RESPONSES OF CLASSICAL THEISM Aquinas’s Second Way (pdf) Aquinas’s Essence/Existence Argument for the Existence of God (pdf) God Fading Away (pdf) Natural Law Theory (pdf) The Design Argument: Aquinas vs. Paley (pdf) The Euthyphro Dilemma (pdf) Seeing Is Believing? (pdf) The Problem of Evil (pdf) Thomas Aquinas’s Doctrine of Divine Simplicity, Pt. 1 (pdf) Thomas Aquinas’s Doctrine of Divine Simplicity, Pt. 2: Dissenting Voices (pdf) Kalam Cosmological Argument (pdf) Course Readings Articles Howe, Richard G. “Saving Natural Theology from Jeffrey Johnson.” Christian Apologetics Journal 17 (Spring 2023): 55- 91. (pdf) ________. “Two Notions of the Infinite in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae I Questions 2 and 46.” Christian Apologetics Journal 8:1 (Spring 2009): 71-86. (pdf) Owens, Joseph. “Aquinas and the Five Ways.” The Monist (Jan. 1974): 16-35. (pdf) Collateral Readings Clarke, W. Norris. “Analogy and the Meaningfulness of Language about God: A Reply to Kai Nielsen.” The Thomist 40 (1976): 61-95. (pdf) Craig, William Lane. “’What place, then, for a creator?’ Hawking on God and Creation.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41 (1990): 473-491. (pdf) Grimes, William. “John T. Elson, Editor Who Asked ‘Is God Dead?’ at Time, Dies at 78.” (pdf) Howe, Richard G. “God and Morality.” (pdf) ________. “On the Function of Philosophy.” Christian Apologetics Journal, 7 (Fall 2008): 57-82. (pdf) ________. “Saving Natural Theology from Jeffrey Johnson.” Christian Apologetics Journal, 17 (Spring 2023): 55-91. (pdf) Norman L. Geisler, “Beware of Philosophy: A Warning to Biblical Scholars.” (pdf) Nielsen, Kai. “Talk of God and the Doctrine of Analogy.” The Thomist 40 (1976): 32-60. (pdf) Owens, Joseph. “Aquinas—’Darkness of Ignorance’ in the Most Refined Notion of God” The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 5, No. 2, Aquinas and Bonaventure (Summer 1974): 93-110, reprinted in Towards a Christian Philosophy, gen. ed. Jude P. Dougherty, Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 21 (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1990), 207-224. (pdf) Time Magazine. “Is God Dead?” (April 8, 1966): 82-87. (pdf) Time Magazine. “Is God Coming Back to Life?” (Dec. 26, 1969): 40-45. (pdf) Time Magazine. “Modernizing the Case for God.” (April 7, 1980): 55-57. (pdf) Multimedia Classical Theism from Wireless Philosophy Part 1: Two Conceptions of God-Classical Theism and Theistic Personalism Part 2: Arguments for Classical Theism Part 3: God’s Omnipotence Part 4: God’s Omniscience Part 5: God’s Goodness and Justice Part 6: Evil and the Goodness in the World Part 7: Atheist Arguments from Evil Sampson, Philip J. “Galileo vs. the Church: A Myth Too Far.” (mp3) ________. “The Evolution of a Myth: Darwin, Science, and Religion.” (mp3) Robert Jastrow’s Struggle of God and Agnosticism (mp4)