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Tag Archives: being
Ex Nihilo Nonnihil Fit: “from nothing something comes”
Can we imagine the universe spontaneously emerging from nothing? I would have thought that the answer would obviously and logically be no—as long as nothing is understood as it was in classical philosophy and theology: the absence of any thing … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged atheism, being, big bang, creatio ex nihilo, creation, creatures, God, Lawrence Krauss, nothing, why something rather than nothing
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Platonism and the Trinity: Apophaticism and Pure Relationality
by Alexander Earl APOPHATICISM To recapitulate, in Plotinus there are several levels of reality: the Cosmos (from our discussion of beauty and bodies), Soul (especially discursive reasoning), Intellect (the all-at-once act of intellect intellecting the intelligibles), and then the One … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Earl
Tagged apophaticism, being, God, Neoplatonism, Plotinus, relation, relationality
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Dionysian Ponderings: Plotinian Emanation and the Creatio ex Nihilo
Did St Dionysius the Areopagite teach the creation of the cosmos from out of nothing? This is a live question for readers of the Corpus Areopagaticum. Dionysius does not explicitly cite the creatio ex nihilo and therefore can easily (some would … Continue reading
Dionysian Ponderings: Transcendence and the Plotinian One
I come to my reading of the Corpus Areopagaticum with a specific understanding of divine transcendence, an understanding which I will be testing along the way. We might put it this way: God infinitely surpasses all creaturely distinctions and dualities—transcendence … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysius the Areopagite
Tagged apophatic, being, beyond being, David Hart, God, negative theology, Pseudo-Dionysius, the One
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The Nought of Sin and the Blindness of God
“Sinne is no dede,” Julian of Norwich calmly states (LT 11), yet who would be so insensitive and cruel to tell that to the families who lost loved ones in last week’s massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas. When Devin Kelly … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged being, Denys Turner, divine causality, divine providence, evil, God, good, privatio boni, privation, sin
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