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Ave Maria University has a number of talks online from past years -- 2004 and on, to be exact. There aren't a ton, but the ones that are there are what you would expect from Ave Maria. Here are some early ones:

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Is the only good Muslim a bad Muslim? Let's hear from one of my Catholic intellectual heroes Dr. Peter Kreeft!

There's a noticeable gap in American Catholic Apologetics with respect to Islam. Steve Kellmeyer, when he's not doing other apologetics tasks, is working to fill that gap. To date his is the best presentation on the topic I've heard. Do give it a listen.

Islam

by Steve Kellmeyer

Protestant Apologist William Lane Craig debates Muslim Shabir Ally on the concept of God in Christianity and Islam

William Lane Craig vs. Shabir Ally (2009)

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Just FYI, there are some free e-books and MP3s up over at Bridegroom Press on some rather diverse topics. Presently, they have a few on Islam, a couple on the Da Vinci Code and several Theology of the Body lectures.

That is all.

I ran across a site which has an extremely big catalog of William Lane Craig debates - he's a Protestant debater par excellance about whom I've blogged before. I'm pretty sure I've already posted a few of these before, but here they are nonetheless:

UPDATE: Thanks to ChristianJR4, these links have been updated here.

Islam and the Fate of Europe: Eurabia or Islamic Assimilation?
A Conversation with George Weigel and Philip Jenkins

Commenting on low birth rates and the increase in Muslim population, no less an authority than Bernard Lewis has said, "Current trends show that Europe will have a Muslim majority by the end of the twenty-first century at the latest. . . . Europe will be part of the Arab West-the Maghreb."

In his book The Cube and the Cathedral George Weigel invites us to envision a "Europe in which the muezzin summons the faithful to prayer from the central loggia of St. Peter's in Rome, while Notre Dame has been transformed into Hagia Sophia on the Seine-a great Christian church become an Islamic museum." Weigel, Lewis and others, including Daniel Pipes, Hirsi Ali, Bat Y'eor and Mark Steyn, believe we should be profoundly alarmed at the consequences for the West.

In God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis, Philip Jenkins offers a more sanguine prognosis of the future of Europe, and seeks to counter what he takes to be unduly alarmist understandings of the future of Europe. While admitting that Europe will probably be in for a "bumpy ride," Jenkins believes we have reason to be less pessimistic. Secularization and other factors will likely encourage Muslim assimilation to Western norms in the twenty-first century, just as they have had similar effects of Christians in the twentieth-century.

For an audio recording of this event, please click here for Part I, and here for Part II.

From the EPPC:

Religious Freedom for All? A Critique of "A Common Word between Us and You"
A Discussion with Patrick Soohkdeo and Andrew Saperstein

Cosponsored by Rick Santorum

On October 13, 2007, 138 Muslim leaders signed an open letter addressed to Pope Benedict XVI and 26 other named heads of Christian denominations that was titled "A Common Word between Us and You."

One response entitled "Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to a Common Word Between Us and You" was initiated by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and was signed by more than 300 so-called "Christian leaders" - including many evangelical academics, pastors and parachurch ministry leaders.

Patrick Sookhdeo, Director of The Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity and The Barnabus Fund, believes we should be deeply skeptical of the open letter and is concerned about the semi-official "Christian response." His critique is summarized in a response to the open letter by the Barnabas Fund:

The letter suggests that loving your neighbor is a concept common to both Islam and Christianity. But it ignores the fact that the Muslim concept of love for other people can only operate within the limited scope of shari`a. Therefore in Islam there can be no absolute love for all humans, as in Christianity. Islam treats specific groups of people in specific ways: Christians and Jews are to be humiliated and brought under Islamic dominion as second rate subjects; infidels must accept Islam or be killed; apostates are to be killed if they do not return to Islam; Islamic sects considered heretical are to be fought and annihilated. Thus "neighbor" is a very limited concept in Islam, i.e. limited to fellow Muslims of the same tradition.

Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo is the International Director of the Barnabas Fund and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity. He holds a Ph.D. from London University 's School of Oriental and African Studies, a D.D. from Western Seminary, Portland , Oregon for work on pluralism. He lectures nationally and internationally on Islamic issues, multicultural issues and race issues. Dr. Sookhdeo is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Defence Academy of the UK and Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University . He is the author/editor of ten books and numerous papers on these subject areas, including his most recent Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam.

The event is sponsored by EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom. For an audio recording of the lecture, please click here.

William Lane Craig is a Protestant philosopher who is also one of the top voices in the Christianity vs. Atheism debates. His presentation of the Kalam argument for the existence of God and his presentations on the reasonableness of believing in the Resurrection are quite possibly the best I've ever encountered.

That said, he's still a Protestant. There's only so much I can endorse him. While the brunt of his stuff is second-to-none, the fringes get a bit frayed (like his take on transubstantiation and his lack of clarity on whether Muslims worship a different God or the same God as Christians but in a rather misunderstood way).

In any event, he's been doing a podcast for a little while and I've been listening to some of them. They're pretty good. Not as good as Peter Kreeft's stuff (check my side bar), but pretty good. Here are some of his podcasts:

2008/03/03	Did God Commit Atrocities in the Old Testament?
2008/02/25	Islam (pt. 3)
2008/01/07	Islam (pt. 2)
2008/01/01	Islam (pt. 1)

2007/06/25	The Existence of God (Resurrection of Jesus)
2007/06/18	The Existence of God (Moral Argument)
2007/06/11	The Existence of God (Fine Tuning)
2007/06/04	The Existence of God (Design)
2007/05/28	The Existence of God (Overview)

Governance, Polity, and Civil Society in Islam and Christianity

Cosponsored by the International Fellowship of Evangelical Mission Theologians (INFEMIT)

The EPPC hosted a luncheon panel discussion on governance, polity, and civil society in the Islamic world and in Christendom. The discussants were Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester in the United Kingdom, and Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity at Yale University.

The discussion was moderated by Robin Wainwright, Chairman of the Board of International Fellowship of Evangelical Mission Theologians in the USA (INFEMIT USA).

AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS EVENT

Event Audio Part 1 (MP3 format, 23 megabytes, 80 minutes playing time)
Event Audio Part 2 (MP3 format, 13 megabytes, 44 minutes playing time)

If you would like to know more about the panelists, you can read their bios here.

Samuel Gregg, D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Director, Center for Economic Personalism

Dr. Samuel Gregg is a moral philosopher who has written and spoken extensively on questions of ethics in public policy, jurisprudence, bioethics, and ethics in business. He has an MA in political philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar.

Dr. Gregg is the author of several books, including Morality, Law, and Public Policy (2000), Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded (2001), and, most recently, On Ordered Liberty (2003). He also publishes regularly in journals such as Markets&Morality, Crisis, and Policy. He is the American editorial consultant for the Italian journal, La Societa, as well as American correspondent for the German newspaper Die Tagespost.

Dr. Gregg is Director of Research at the Acton Institute, an Adjunct Professor at the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and the Family within the Pontifical Lateran University, and a consultant for Oxford Analytica Ltd. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2003 he was elected a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society.

Chavez's Desire to 'Defeat Imperialism'
News & Views, 2007-07-03

Two Years of Pope Benedict XVI
The Drew Mariani Show, 2007-04-20

The Crisis of Europe: Benedict XVI’s Analysis and Solution
2007-04-12

Islam and Pluralism
Morning Air, 2007-03-09

Chavez and Venezuela
Morning Air, 2007-02-12

Chavez's Holy War
Bud Hedinger Live, 2007-02-05

The Ghosts of Appeasement Christian Realism and the Rise of Islamo-Fascism By Joseph Loconte

Publication Date: November 16, 2006

Most critiques of liberalism overlook its deepest moral and religious problem -- the denial of radical evil. The fact is that liberalism is sanguine about human nature and its capacity not just for virtue, but perfectibility. Utopians throughout history consistently have denied evil as part of the universal human condition. In the last century, for example, idealists of the 1930s downplayed the global threat of Nazism and Fascism. Their failure to face international terrorism realistically invited the danger onto their own shores. That notorious decade of appeasement grew from the soil of a political-religious world view, the ideology of utopianism.

So, too, today: Contemporary utopians soft-pedal the clear and present danger of Islamic radicalism. The ghosts of appeasement, which now animate many political and religious leaders, present a profound challenge to the health and even survival of American democracy. Overcoming this challenge involves a recovery of Christian realism about the tragedy of human nature and the problem of evil in a post-9/11 world. In this lecture Mr. Joseph Loconte offers a historically informed critique of liberalism through the lens of Christian realism, with some applications for U.S. foreign policy today.

To continue reading the transcript of this lecture please click here to download the pdf version.

To listen to an audio recording of this lecture please click the link below:

Landregan Lecture 2006

On November, 4th, Mr. John Allen, author of numerous books, Vatican analyst for CNN, and Vatican reporter for National Catholic Reporter, delivered the 2006 Landregan Lecture: "The Cross and the Crescent: The Relationship between the Church and Islam under Benedict XVI."

The Landregan Lecture was inaugurated in 1999 to honor Steven T. Landregan, UD alumnus, prominent churchman, former editor of the Texas Catholic, and patron of permanent deacons in the diocese of Dallas. Speakers are nationally prominent figures whose area of expertise reflects the many interests that have animated Mr. Landregan throughout his long, distinguished, and continuing career of service to the Church in North Texas.

To listen to the lecture in mp3 format please click here .