Aquinas and the God of the Bible
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 [...]