POSTED BY on 10:31 PM under ,
Following in the same vein as my last post, here are some debates about the existence of God featuring Antony Flew. I'm posting them because I've heard of Flew but I've never heard Flew. Here's about all I know (taken from his Wikipedia page):

Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew (born 11 February 1923) is a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he is notable for his works on the philosophy of religion.

Flew was a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until evidence of a God surfaces. He has also criticised the idea of life after death,[1] the free will defence to the problem of evil, and the meaningfulness of the concept of God.[2] However, in 2004 he stated an allegiance to deism,[3] and later wrote the book There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, with contributions from Roy Abraham Varghese.
So let's see what made him the forerunner of the New Atheist movement, shall we?

Atheist Theist Video Audio Text Year Notes

Antony Flew William Lane Craig link link book 1998
Antony Flew Terry L. Miethe

book 1991
Antony Flew Thomas Warren link link
1976 8 hours!
Antony Flew Gary Habermas link link book 2003 resurrection
POSTED BY on 9:57 PM under ,
So I happened on an atheist audio debate site that has 400+ debates between theists and atheists, including several by my favorite atheist debater Christopher Hitchens. It's just so hard not to like the guy. Of the debates of his I've heard, the 2007 one with Catholic Dinesh D'Souza is my favorite (for entertainment purposes only) -- though I hear the debate between Hitchens and Protestant William Lane Craig (not listed below) at Biola earlier this year was the best in content and form. I'm still looking for that one.

But without further ado, here are the links to the Hitchens debates:

Atheist Theist Video Audio Text Year Notes

Christopher Hitchens William Lane Craig & others link link
2009 Panel Discussion
Christopher Hitchens Al Sharpton link link
2007
Christopher Hitchens Paul Edwards
link


Christopher Hitchens Dinesh D’Souza link link
2009
Christopher Hitchens Marvin Olasky link link
2007
Christopher Hitchens Douglas Wilson link 1 2 3 pdf 2008
Christopher Hitchens Douglas Wilson

link 2007
Christopher Hitchens Kenneth Miller

link 2008 science and religion
Christopher Hitchens Lorenzo Albacete link link
2008 science and religion
Christopher Hitchens Alister McGrath
link


Christopher Hitchens Ed Doerr
link


Christopher Hitchens Dennis Prager
link


Christopher Hitchens Mark Roberts
1 2 3


Christopher Hitchens Chris Hedges
link


Christopher Hitchens David Allen White
link link 2007 impact of Christianity
Christopher Hitchens Peter Hitchens link link
2007 only partly about religion
Christopher Hitchens Frank Turek link link
2008
Christopher Hitchens Shmuley Boteach link link
2008
Christopher Hitchens David Wolpe link link
2007
Christopher Hitchens Dinesh D’Souza link dvd link
2007
Christopher Hitchens John Lennox dvd

2008
Christopher Hitchens John Lennox dvd

2009
Christopher Hitchens Dinesh D’Souza & Dennis Prager link link
2008
POSTED BY on 12:22 PM under , ,
Here's another debate featuring the atheist rapier of wit Christopher Hitchens and Reformed pastor Douglas Wilson, found at the Protestant Westminster Theological Seminary.

VIDEO:

Click here to play video
Hitchens Wilson


AUDIO ONLY:
You can listen to the introduction by Scott Oliphant

Full debate

and the Q & A session
POSTED BY on 12:10 PM under ,
Found on Principium Unitatis:
Last night some Catholics (including my family and I) and some Protestants from different Protestant traditions attended Professor Lawrence Feingold's lecture titled "St. Paul on Justification". The lecture was fantastic. The audio (as an mp3 file) can be downloaded here.
...
Justification is the fundamental issue that has divided Protestants and Catholics for almost 500 years. In order to be reconciled in the full communion Christ wants His disciples to show to the world, we need to reach agreement on this subject. And that means that we first need to listen and understand each other on this subject. Here's an opportunity to do just that.

POSTED BY on 9:25 PM under
As a reminder, you can get a copy of Janet Smith's talk CONTRACEPTION: WHY NOT on CD for free from the folks at One More Soul. Makes a good item to inconspicuously slip into that book on your friend's desk.

...just sayin'.

UPDATE:
It appears the talk is no longer available there. Listen to
it free online HERE.
POSTED BY on 9:54 PM under
May God richly bless Fr. Corapi in this age and in the age to come.


POSTED BY on 11:31 PM under ,
Filipino Catholic, a frequent tipster here at Sonitus Sanctus, sent me a link to the following debate. I listened to it and then forgot about it. Thankfully, FC reminded me that I didn't share. That said, here ya' go:
Ben Douglass / Patrick Donahue
March 14, 2009

Sola Scriptura


Flyer For Debate Download
Donahue's First Affirmative Listen
Douglass' First Negative Listen
Donahue's Second Affirmative Listen
Douglass' Second Negative Listen
Douglass Cross Examines Donahue Listen
Donahue Cross Examines Douglass Listen
Donahue's Third Affirmative Listen
Douglass' Third Negative Listen
Donahue's Closing Listen
Douglass' Closing Listen

POSTED BY on 8:46 AM under , , ,

Here is the next talk from the folks at Fullness of Truth. If you haven't subscribed to their podcast, you need to -- it really does bring you the best Catholic presenters in the country today.


Shawn Carney

Episode No. 7: Catholics, Culture, and You!

Part 1:

Listen Here!

Download this show here

Part 2:

Faced with a society that is rapidly declining, and opposing what we hold most dear, Sean Carny exhorts us, today in part 2, in his talk on "Catholics, the Culture, and You" to rise up and defend the Church.

Listen Here!

Download this show here

For more information on Shawn Carney go to: http://www.ambassadorspeakers.com

Special thanks to Eric Genuis for his music which was used in the background of this show. Please also visit his webiste at www.ericgenuis.com


POSTED BY on 8:59 PM under , ,
William "Wild Bill" Albrecht wrote in and let me know about a recent debate of his with TurretinFan from Alpha and Omega Ministries (the patristically dishonest "ministry" of the Right Reverend Reformed Baptist Bishop James "Dr." White). Rock and roll! I love debates and I love the Blessed Virgin (Hi Mom!) -- how could this get better?!? Wild Bill writes:
Does the Bible Teach that We are to Venerate Mary?
This is the first in a number of debates we have planned. We will be debating the MARIAN DOGMAS very soon, you can announce that also if you'd like. Those will be much longer. Each DOGMA will be roughly about 2 and a half hours long and we will start debating that in July,


UPDATE: Find Wild Bill Albrecht's last debate here.

POSTED BY on 11:53 AM under
From American Papist:

While we're on a Dominican theme (with today's photo caption call), I figured this would also be of interest to readers: "Fr. Augustine DiNoia, OP, interviewed on both the nature of his position in the Curia and the role of the Dominican House of Studies at this stage of the Order’s history."

POSTED BY on 11:13 AM under ,
Recommendation from Southern Appeal:



David Bentley Hart on Atheist Delusions

Speaking of the recent spate of books on atheism, David Bentley Hart, author of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, says, "We used to produce better atheists, atheists who had a better arsenal of arguments to make...but perhaps...it's sort of the slap-dash way in which they approach the topic that has made them so marketable.

Download MP3

POSTED BY on 8:27 AM under
If you are able, please contribute:

We the students of the University of Notre Dame have called for a Rosary Crusade in response to the recent announcement of the honoring of President Obama on our campus. During the Rosary Crusade, which began on Wednesday of Holy Week and will last until Sunday May 17th (the day of President Obama's commencement address at ND), we will be praying the Rosary each day for the following three intentions:

1) The conversion of heart of President Obama regarding the sanctity of life.

2) For the Catholic character of the University of Notre Dame.

3) For a greater respect for the dignity of human life from conception until natural death around the world.

We truly believe we can have 1,000,000 Rosaries prayed by May 17th, but we need people to know about our campaign in order for that to happen. We at Notre Dame realize that the scandal given by the honoring of President Obama extends much further than the Notre Dame campus and we recognize that we, the students, have been given the great opportunity to be leaders (at least for this small portion of time) in the Catholic Pro-life movement around the world. Please encourage your readers to join with us in praying the Rosary for these intentions and logging the number of Rosaries they have prayed on our website at http://ndresponse.com/counter/ . Facebook users are encouraged to join our event. If any good is going to come from this situation, that good will be motivated and brought about by prayer, especially the prayer of the Rosary.

No mission or cause is too great for God, least of all the cause of those who are the weakest amongst us. We trust Our Lady will watch over us and recommend our prayers to Her Beloved Son.

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