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Tag Archives: creation
The One-Storey Universe of David Bentley Hart
David Hart’s critique of two-tier Thomism can be misleading. If we are acquainted with the ongoing debate swirling around natura pura and the desiderium naturale, we will be tempted to judge his arguments according to scholastic criteria and categories. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Theology
Tagged creation, David Hart, deification, grace, natura pura, pure nature, Sergius Bulgakov, You Are Gods
42 Comments
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 Philosophical Theology, Hugh McCann
Tagged hell, creation, sin, free will, providence, human freedom, eternal damnation, theodicy, divine sovereignty, evil
17 Comments
If God is going to deify everyone anyway, why not deify everyone immediately?
by David Bentley Hart Frankly, Al, I find the question very strange. In part, because its premise is an absolute banality: that life is a kind of contest, played within the arbitrary constraints of the clock, at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creation, David Hart, eschatology, evil, God, good, human being, sin, theodicy
132 Comments
Double Agency: Conceiving Divine and Creaturely Causality
We begin, I suggest, by getting clear in our minds the kind of relationship that exists between Creator and creatures: God’s creative activity is not external to the universe, as is our relation to such things as stoves and books. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, creator, creaturely agency, divine agency, divine causality, God, Herbert McCabe, intelligent design
12 Comments
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
6 Comments
It’s Tortoises All the Way Down!
“In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. Yet the earth was invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss, and a divine wind was being carried along over the water.” (Gen 1:1-2) That the one God … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, creator, God, Mormon, preexistent matter, Thomas Oord
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Exorcizing the God of the Gaps
The rise of modern science created a problem for Christian theology. If God is not scientifically needed to explain why water freezes at 32°F or why the stars come out at night, if the universe is just a self-powered machine … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged big bang, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, creation, creator, creaturely causality, deism, divine causality, God, Robert Jastrow
60 Comments
God in Science: No Need for that Hypothesis
It’s funny how one can remember something read decades earlier but cannot remember the contents of a book read only last week. Back in seminary I read a little book by Arthur A. Vogel titled The Power of His Resurrection. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creation, deism, Diogenes Allen, God, God of the gaps, Isaac Newton, science, universe
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