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Tag Archives: creator
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
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Knowing the Mind of God with Stephen Hawking
If I want to understand why my closet door becomes difficult to open and close when it gets cold or how it is that a plant can convert light energy into chemical energy, I call a scientist. I do not … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, creator, deism, Diogenes Allen, divine creation, God, Stephen Hawking
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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
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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 is not Odin, God is not Zeus, God is not Marduk
God is not Odin All-Father. God does not wield thunderbolts like Zeus. God does not make the world by slaying Tiamat and dividing her carcass to form heaven and earth. God is not god. We Christians, of course, did not … Continue reading
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Tagged apophatic, creator, divine creation, God, gods, Herbert McCabe, monotheism, N. T. Wright, Yahweh
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Apprehending Apokastasis: Human Being is Absolute Desire for God
Finally and at long last, we arrive at David Bentley Hart’s fourth meditation in That All Shall Be Saved. This is my favorite chapter of the book. It certainly is the philosophically meatiest and most challenging, which is probably why … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creator, David Hart, desire for God, eternal damnation, freedom, hell, our hearts are restless, universal salvation
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Dionysian Ponderings: The God Who is Theophany
All created being, all that is and will ever be, flows from the one transcendent Deity who is Father, Son, and Spirit. St Dionysius the Areopagite seems to be clear on this point, but it’s difficult to pigeonhole him in one … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysius the Areopagite
Tagged creator, divine creation, Eriugena, God, Neoplatonism, panentheism, Pseudo-Dionysius, theophany
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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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