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Tag Archives: creation
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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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
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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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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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