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“Introduction to Philosophy” Slide Decks of the PowerPoint
Presentations
Pt. 1. “Some Preliminary Matters” (pdf)
Pt. 2. “Defending the HandMaid: How Theology Needs Philosophy” (pdf)
Pt. 3. “Aristotle Camping with His Dog” (pdf)
Pt. 4. “Metaphysics: Plato” (pdf)
Pt. 5. “Metaphysics: Aristotle” (pdf)
Pt. 6. “Metaphysics: Aquinas” (pdf)
Pt. 7. “Epistemology: Introduction” (pdf)
Pt. 8. “Epistemology: Skepticism” (pdf)
Pt. 9. “Epistemology: Rationalism” (pdf)
Pt. 10. “Epistemology: Descartes” (pdf)
Pt. 11. “Epistemology: Empiricism” (pdf)
Pt. 12. “Epistemology: Kant” (pdf)
Pt. 13. “Epistemology: Aquinas (pdf)
Pt. 14. “Natural Theology (pdf)
Suggested Readings
Bibliography on Classical Philosophy (pdf)
Aertsen, Jan A. "The Convertibility of Being and Good in St. Thomas Aquinas." New
Scholasticism 59 (1985): 449-470 (pdf)
Howe, Richard G. “Defending the Handmaid” chapter from I Am Put Here for the Defense of the
Gospel: Dr. Norman L. Geisler: A Festschrift in His Honor (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)
________. “Two Notions of the Infinite in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae I, Questions 2 and
46.” Christian Apologetics Journal 8, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 71-86. (pdf)
Owens, Joseph. “Aquinas and the Five Ways.” Monist 58 (Jan. 1974): 16-35. (pdf)
________. “Aquinas—’Darkness of Ignorance’ in the Most Refined Notion of God.” The
Southwestern Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 5, No. 2, “Aquinas and Bonaventure.” (Summer
1974): 93-110. (pdf): 93–110.
Sullivan, Daniel J. An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist
Tradition. (pdf)
For additional suggested readings on this website, go here.
Apologetics South Africa: Rebekah Howe
“Progressive Christianity”
“Deconstructing from Christianity”
“Always Be Ready”
“Bethel/Hillsong/Elevation: Gateway ‘Drugs’ to Dangerous Theology”
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“The Problem of Evil”
Evening service version (pdf)
Full version (pdf)
Davies, Brian. Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. (pdf)
Feser, Edward. “Stephen Law’s ‘evil-god’ Challenge.” (pdf)
________. “The Thomistic Dissolution of the Logical Problem of Evil.” (pdf)
“Is God Good?” (video by Jim Zangmeister)