Posted in Aquinas, Doctrine of God, History, Van Til, philosophy, tagged about, Frame, itinerary, Oliphint on July 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll be in Florida all of next week, so I will probably not be posting anything.
However, I do have plans of things to discuss in the weeks following. As you can probably tell by the amount of information on Aquinas on this blog, I really like his stuff. Also, I think Aquinas’s philosophical theology is [...]
Posted in Aquinas, Books, Doctrine of God, philosophy, tagged metaphysics, neo-platonism, simplicity on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This looks to be a promising read and a great resource for understanding Aquinas’s philosophical theology from - Oxford University Press (June, 2008 ). Here’s a brief description from the publisher:
This book offers an in-depth examination of what divine simplicity means for Aquinas and how he argues for its claims. Simplicity and other divine predicates [...]
Posted in Anselm, Bible, Doctrine of God, Van Til, philosophy, tagged apologetics, reason/revelation, evidence on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t think it is autonomous rationalism to begin one’s apologetics with theological proofs. The whole point of beginning with reason is not to start from a neutral ground where all facts are brute facts and everyone agrees that religion is not an issue. The point of beginning with reason is to demonstrate the necessity [...]
Posted in Doctrine of God, philosophy on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Assuming we all hold to some form of divine simplicity: It seems that many Reformed folks, especially those who believe that the “5 points” are the quintessential articulation of “Calvinism”, have forgotten the historic apophatic theology, including the functions of the intellect in acquiring knowledge and consequently the doctrine of analogy. This can be seen [...]
Posted in Doctrine of God, philosophy, vermigli, tagged epistemology, heaven, resurrection, visio dei on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
In eternal life the essence of God will be known by the blessed, not of course by the senses but by the soul or mind; as John says: “When he appears we shall see him as he is.” Paul affirms the same thing: “Now we see him through a glass darkly, but then face to [...]
Posted in Aquinas, Doctrine of God, freedom, tagged cause, divine attributes, freewill, God's will on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The will of God, as it is the first and universal cause, does not exclude intermediate causes that have power to produce certain effects. Since however all intermediate causes are inferior in power to the first cause, there are many things in the divine power, knowledge and will that are not included in the order [...]
Posted in Aquinas, Bible, Doctrine of God, History, philosophy, tagged metaphysics, rahner, Trinity on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Any attempt to present him [Thomas] as an ‘essentialist, that is, as being conscious of and as affirming first of all the common divine essence, and only secondarily the Persons in that essence, would be to betray the balance of his theology. Such an interpretation should no longer be possible since the appearance of the [...]
Posted in Aquinas, Bible, Doctrine of God, History, philosophy, tagged aristotle, creation, barthian, unmoved mover on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Roger Olson is one among many scholars who follow in line with Karl Barth’s critique of Medieval (particularly St. Thomas) concepts of natural theology and their effect on the doctrine of God. Olson notes that Thomas’s “portrait of God seems quite foreign to the God of the scriptural narrative, who genuinely grieves and sorrows and [...]
Posted in Doctrine of God, augustine, sin, tagged epistemology, God's will, predestination, confessions on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
You have ordered it, and so it is, that every disordered mind should be its own punishment. (St. Augustine, Confessions, I.12)
Posted in Aquinas, Doctrine of God, philosophy, tagged reason/revelation, Romans on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.” (Rom. 1:20)
According to St. Thomas this verse gives Christians the authority to demonstrate God’s existence based on natural reason. Although, one must remember, as Fergus Kerr [...]
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