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God in Science: No Need for that Hypothesis

Posted on 30 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading →

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Doing Faithful Biblical Criticism

Posted on 4 March 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

How do we learn who Jesus of Nazareth “really” was? The question assumes that there was in fact a historical person named Jesus. Jesus’ existence has been contested in the past; but I doubt there are many serious historians today … Continue reading →

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Can Reason Prove the Existence of God?

Posted on 7 September 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Back in 1974, after five or six years of atheism, I began to believe in the existence of God. I couldn’t have been more surprised. I thought my atheism was rock-solid. So what effected the change? A philosophical argument. Yes, … Continue reading →

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Amir Aczel, Science, and the Existence of God

Posted on 10 July 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Not only do the atheists not seem to get it, but a lot of theists apparently don’t either. I’m referring here to Amir Aczel, the author of Why Science Does Not Disprove God. I have not read Aczel’s book, but he … Continue reading →

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Double Agency: Conceiving Divine and Creaturely Causality

Posted on 28 January 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We begin, I suggest, by getting clear in our minds the kind of relationship that exists between Creator and creatures: God’s creative activity is not external to the universe, as is our relation to such things as stoves and books. … Continue reading →

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Exorcizing the God of the Gaps

Posted on 11 December 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The rise of modern science created a problem for Christian theology. If God is not scientifically needed to explain why water freezes at 32°F or why the stars come out at night, if the universe is just a self-powered machine … Continue reading →

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God in Science–No Need for that Hypothesis

Posted on 10 December 2013 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading →

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