Pat and Christine (who hosts her own podcast here) take a look at the different theological layers (and lessons!) of Star Wars. Star Wars Theology on my Wife’s Podcast Related Episode The Mystery of Evil, Providence, and Human Freedom with Dr. Michael Torre The Pat Flynn Show If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean […]
Infinite Past, Aquinas’s 3rd Way, and The Quantifier Shift
I want to start getting better about responding to podcast listeners via email on the blog, so… … Pat, I ask this because of your recent podcast on the kalam argument. I read an Aquinas commentator who explained that part of Aquinas’ reasoning in his third way goes as such: If all things that exist […]
The Mystery of Evil, Providence, and Human Freedom with Dr. Michael Torre
One of the most bedeviling difficulties in life is the problem of suffering: why do we live in a world with so much nastiness, especially if (as Christians maintain) our universe is created by God who is the unrestricted absolute, and thereby all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good? Furthermore, there is data in revelation pointing toward the […]
Introduction to the Kalam Cosmological Argument with John DeRosa
John DeRosa of the Classical Theism podcast returns to The Pat Flynn Show to introduce a famous — and quite controversial — argument for the existence of God, called the Kalam cosmological argument. Check it out! PS – My voice sounds really weird on this episode and I don’t know why!!! Introduction to the Kalam […]
Safeguarding Divine Simplicity with Bernard Lonergan
Safeguarding Divine Simplicity with Bernard Lonergan Recently, arguments have been put forth attacking the doctrine of divine simplicity (some scholarly, others popular). None of these arguments are original. In fact, Ed Feser argues in response to these objections that they haven’t moved the conversation forward an inch from where it has historically been. This is […]