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Ainulindalë: The Secret of the Secret Fire
You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass. Gandalf’s confrontation … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, essence and energies, freedom, God, Secret Fire, Silmarillion, Tolkien
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The World is a Hazlenut We Must Nought
Of the sixteen showings received by Julian of Norwich on the 15th of May, 1373, the third immediately grabbed my theological attention: The third is that our Lord God, al mighty, all wisdom, and all love, right also verily as … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged creation, creator, God, happiness, hazlenut, Julian of Norwich, nothing, sin
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The Diffusiveness of Being
Norris Clarke writes: “It is proper to every being, insofar as it is in act, to overflow into action, to act according to its nature, whether such action be free or necessitated in its modality” (Explorations in Metaphysics, p. 46). … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged being, creation, diffusiveness, emanation, God, Norris Clarke, Pseudo-Dionysius, Thomas Aquinas
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Is God the Author of Sin?
Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodicies seek to protect God from responsibility for human evil. That’s the upshot of … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, divine sovereignty, evil, free will, God, human freedom, Kathryn Tanner, providence, sin, theodicy
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But is God really, really, really related to the world?
Chris Mullen (aka malcolmsnotes) has recently targeted four alleged problems with the scholastic notion of actus purus, as articulated in the theology of St Thomas Aquinas. I’d like to respond to the first problem, i.e., the Thomist assertion that God does not exist … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas
Tagged actus purus, Aquinas, Cambridge properties, creation, divine being, God, negative theology, properties, relations
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The Eternal Now That is Not Now
In his book Creation and the Sovereignty of God, Catholic philosopher Hugh McCann seeks to vigorously defend the traditional understanding of timeless, or atemporal, eternity. If this world of becoming, mutability, and temporal succession has been created from nothing, then … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, eternity, God, Hugh McCann, timelessness
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Why Denial of Divine Simplicity Implies Atheism
For much of my theological life, I have not understood the notion of divine simplicity nor thought it important to understand. What has divine simplicity to do with the lively God of the Bible‽ Even after I began to read … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Philosophical Theology
Tagged atheism, contingency, creation, creator, David Bradshaw, David Hart, divine simplicity, God
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