Ep. 530 Responding to Dinesh D’Souza on the Alleged Problems of Calvinism
On Twitter and YouTube, Dinesh D’Souza has been criticizing Calvinism (i.e. Reformed theology) for weeks, leveling both scriptural but also philosophical and moral objections. Bob adopts his version of Molinism to argue that God’s sovereignty can be reconciled with man’s free will (and hence moral culpability).
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- Dinesh D’Souza’s critique of Calvinism.
- RC Sproul’s YouTube series introducing systematic Reformed theology.
- William Lane Craig quick intro to Molinism.
- The BMS ep. 158, A Geometric Analogy to Reconcile Paul and James.
- Installments one and three in the BMS series on an Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospels, laying out Bob’s view of free will vs. determinism, and how to reconcile Arminianism with Calvinism.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
I hate to be offtopic but this article is for you. If you’re short on time feed it to your LLM for the tl;dr first, but I think this is a real candidate for an austrian journal.
The competence crisis in advanced civilizations:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/complex-systems-and-the-competence
The empiric evidence may be too anecdotal and it might need more embedding in prior work, i don’t know, but it really sank in deep for me. Thank you.