Publications

• Paradox in Christian Theology: An Analysis of Its Presence, Character, and Epistemic Status (Paternoster Press, 2007, ISBN: 1842274627, ISBN13: 9781842274620).
  • This book is a slightly revised version of my doctoral thesis, published in the Paternoster Theological Monographs series. (You can read the abstract and table of contents for the submitted thesis here.)
  • You can currently purchase it from Authentic Media, Wesley Owen, and Amazon.co.uk in the UK, and from Wipf & Stock and Amazon.com in the US.
  • The book has been reviewed by Steven Boyer in Religious Studies 44:2 (2008), Paul Brazier in The Heythrop Journal 49:2 (2008), and Dale Tuggy in Faith and Philosophy 26:1 (2009) (the last also posted here). In addition, Paul Manata posted a detailed review on Triablogue, and Paul Helm posted a shorter review on Helm's Deep.
  • Despite my best efforts at proofreading, a number of typos crept into the first printing; these will be corrected in subsequent printings.
• 'Presuppositionalism and Frame's Epistemology', forthcoming in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John Frame, ed. John J. Hughes (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2009).
• Review of Faith's Reasons for Believing by Robert L. Reymond, Themelios 33:2 (2008).
  • A slightly longer version of the review is posted here.
• 'In Defence of Mystery: A Reply to Dale Tuggy', Religious Studies 41:2 (2005), 145-163.
  • A reply to Dale Tuggy's article, 'The Unfinished Business of Trinitarian Theorizing', Religious Studies 39:2 (2003).
• 'If Knowledge Then God: The Epistemological Theistic Arguments of Plantinga and Van Til', Calvin Theological Journal 40:1 (2005), 49-75.
  • An overview and comparison of various epistemological theistic arguments found in the writings of Alvin Plantinga and Cornelius Van Til. [A number of unhelpful typographical errors (not to mention an inexplicable insertion of the name 'Immanuel Kant') crept into the published version of this article, but these are not present in this online version.]
• Review of The Untamed God by Jay Wesley Richards, Themelios 30:1 (2004).

Discerning Reader Reviews

The following book reviews are posted off-site at Discerning Reader.

• Only One Way? Reaffirming the Exclusive Truth Claims of Christianity, ed. Richard Phillips (Crossway, 2007).
• Putting Jesus In His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ, Robert M. Bowman, Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski (Kregel, 2007).
• Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics, ed. K. Scott Oliphint and Lane G. Tipton (P&R, 2006).
• Reasons for Faith: Making a Case for the Christian Faith, ed. Norman L. Geisler and Chad V. Meister (Crossway, 2007).
• Faith's Reasons for Believing: An Apologetic Antidote to Mindless Christianity, Robert L. Reymond (Mentor/Christian Focus, 2008).
• Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice, Francis J. Beckwith (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
• Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, Keith Ward (Lion, 2009).
• Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart (Yale University Press, 2009).

Other Reviews

• The Works of Cornelius Van Til (Logos Bible Software).
• The Collected Works of John M. Frame, Volume 1 (Logos Bible Software).
• Scholar’s Library (Logos Bible Software).

Miscellanea

• 'Andrew McGowan on Inerrancy' (2008).
  • A critique of chapter 4 of McGowan's The Divine Spiration of Scripture.
• A Tabular Comparison of the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith, the 1658 Savoy Declaration of Faith, the 1677/1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith and the 1742 Philadelpha Confession of Faith (2007).
  • Created by Don Lowe, this is an extension of my tabular comparison of the 1646 WCF and 1689 LBCF (see below).
• 'The Theistic Preconditions of Knowledge: A Thumbnail Sketch' (2006).
  • A brief defence of one of the distinctive claims of Van Tilian apologists.
• 'Comments on John Johnson's Response to Frame & Hays' (2006).
  • Some comments on Johnson's article in the Global Journal of Classical Theology.
• 'Van Til's Serious Trinitarian Theology' (2005).
  • A guest post on Triablogue in defence of Van Til's understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. (The title is a lame reference to Triablogue's original tagline: "Serious Trinitarian Theology".)
• Van Til FEM (Frequently Encountered Misconceptions) (2004).
  • A dynamic document providing responses to many of the most frequently encountered misconceptions of Cornelius Van Til's philosophy, theology, and apologetics.
• A Tabular Comparison of the 1646 WCF and the 1689 LBCF (2003).
  • Just as the title indicates. Differences between these two Reformed confessions are colour-coded for ease of comparison. (PDF version available here, but note that hyperlinks do not work.)
• 'Faith Without Reasons? A Review of Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga' (2002).
  • This essay was originally presented to a reading group of postgraduate systematic theology students at New College, University of Edinburgh.
• 'Precogs, Prophets, and the Purposes of God' (2002).
  • Some musings on the film Minority Report. An edited version of this article appears on the excellent Facing the Challenge website.
• 'Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga: A Brief Comparison' (2001).
  • Originally posted to the reformed-epistemology discussion group in July 2001, in response to a query about the main areas of agreement and disagreement between these two Christian thinkers.
• 'Secular Responses to the Problem of Induction' (2000).
  • Originally written as an assignment for a course in systematic logic, this essay examines the most sophisticated secular responses to Hume's skepticism regarding induction and concludes that all fail to provide a satisfactory account for how our inductive inferences can be warranted.
• 'How to Write a Theological Paper' by John M. Frame (1987).
  • Appendix F in Frame's The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, posted by permission of P&R Publishing. It should be required reading for all seminary students!

God willing, more to come...