There have been
some interesting blog comments about JP's
ETS paper and
Kingdom Triangle. Helpful examples include posts by
- John Mark Reynolds at Biola University (here)
- Frank Beckwith at Baylor University (here),
- Melinda Penner and Brett Kunkle at Stand to Reason (here and here), and
- C. Michael Patton at Converse with Scholars (here).
- Paul Copan at Palm Beach Atlantic University and President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (here)
JP cannot - and nor does he
want to - offer responses to all criticisms of his ETS paper or the main ideas presented in
Kingdom Triangle.
He has, however, offered a general response to his ETS paper (
here) and previously offered a response to some of the main criticisms against
Kingdom Triangle (
here).
JP welcomes discussion and even criticism of his views. But there is an interesting factor to note with the online responses to JP. If they are critical of the ETS paper or the
Kingdom Triangle thesis, there is a remarkable, qualitative difference of tone, texture, and substance to such remarks if they come from people who are personally acquainted with JP and his heart vs. those that accuse - if not slander - him from a relational distance. This phenomenon is not accidental. It reveals not only the heart and mind of what people disagree about, but it is also evidence of
how they present both their heart and mind in disagreement.
