Talk:Gary Habermas

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I have actually had dinner with Dr. Habermas, being a sutdent at Liberty University. He is a great guy and just really down to earth.65.161.73.250 16:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The description claims that Gary Habermas has a doctor of divinity degree from "Emmanuel College, Oxford." This claim may be found online here: http://www.arn.org/arnproducts/php/video_show_item.php?id=64

But there's just one small problem with that--there is no Emmanuel College at Oxford University, and the link is to the Wikipedia page of Emmanuel College at Cambridge, not Oxford.

There is misleading information on Antony Flew that needs to be removed. Flew did not simply change his beliefs from believing there is no God to a lack of belief that there is a God. Flew had a positive belief that a God exists. He made this very clear in his book: There is a God. 167.181.12.167 (talk) 11:43, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Habermas's current online resume does not list this D.D. degree: http://www.garyhabermas.com/habermas_resume.htm[reply]

So what's the story behind this claim? Did a third-party misreport this degree, does Habermas have any such degree? Lippard (talk) 23:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see that an anonymous editor has removed the claim from Wikipedia, yet it persists in numerous other descriptions of Habermas on the Internet and is still deserving of an explanation rather than simply editing away the claim. Lippard (talk) 04:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stop Removing Good Content

The content under discussion is good material, cited by secondary sources, such as the Evangelical Philosophical Society and Antony Flew's book. His article in Philosophia Christi is notable, since it is in a peer-reviewed journal, and it was Habermas who conducted one of the key interviews (along with N.T. Wright) where Flew explained his conversion. Habermas had many years of correspondence with Flew, including televised debates. Flew's conversion is strongly related to the career of Habermas.--TMD (talk) 19:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I can't understand why this article shouldn't say how many books has the person written if the information comes from a secondary source. That is been reverted with the claim that the content is promotional, but without any explanation to why a sourced and objective content should be removed. I'm going to restore at least this part and I suggest it remains out of the dispute unless good reasons are presented on the talk page. GreyWinterOwl (talk) 02:38, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The sources provided are pretty thin. Not sure they meet BLP standard. The whole thing looks more like self-promotion and fluff than anything that belongs in an encyclopaedia. Any reason why this article shouldn't be deleted? --Pete (talk) 21:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Habermas Lacks Credentials

Habermas does not possess the credentials of a critical ancient historian. As far as I know, he is not a member of the Association of Ancient Historians. He seems unaware of the disciplines of critical ancient history founded by Thucydidies. McDowell makes no attempt to eliminate myth and romanticism. He is an apologist and professor of philosophical theology. I did not discover one book dealing with higher Biblical Criticism or the development of Christology among his books. Miistermagico (talk) 01:31, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]