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Tag Archives: God
A Self-effacing Gardener: The Unity of God’s Activity in Nature and Grace in the Theology of Austin Farrer
by Jeffrey A. Vogel, Ph.D. Introduction At the end of Faith and Speculation, his last major work, Austin Farrer writes the following: “Our thesis is no more than that the relation of created act to creative Act is inevitably indefinable, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, cosmology, divine action, divine providence, double agency, evolution, God, human freedom
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The Impassible Passibility of the Kenotic Word
“For Cyril,” writes Fr John McGuckin, “the notion of the Eternal One’s self-emptying (Kenosis) as outlined in Phil.2.6f. rises to the status of a master theme throughout his thought—to such an extent that the earthly economy of the Word made … Continue reading
Posted in Cyril of Alexandria
Tagged Cyril of Alexandria, divine suffering, God, impassibility, Jesus Christ, kenosis
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St Gennadios Scholarios on Prayer and God’s Providence
by Matthew C. Briel, Ph.D. A couple of weeks ago I had a late night discussion with two senior colleagues who asked me about my work on Gennadios Scholarios (1400-1472) and his reconciliation of the Thomistic and Palamite accounts of … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Aquinas, Byzantine Thomism, foreknowledge, God, predestination, providence, Scholarios, Thomism
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New Covenant and the Restoration of Zion
The LORD concludes the allegory of Jerusalem with the announcement of a new covenant. Despite his beloved’s infidelities, despite the severity of his judgments, he replights himself to her—definitively, irrevocably, everlastingly. Yea, thus says the LORD GOD: I will deal … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Robert Jenson
Tagged covenant, Ezekiel, God, Israel, Jerusalem, new covenant, unconditional promise
Perfect Being Theology, Theistic Personalism, and the Eclipse of the Apophatic
Readers of this blog will by now be well-acquainated with the term “theistic personalism.” It was coined by Brian Davies to describe what he believes to be a problematic understanding of divinity, commonly advanced by analytic philosophers. He specifically names … Continue reading
Theodicy, Hell, and David Bentley Hart
by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In his recent blog post “The Morality of Gehenna,” Father Lawrence Farley defends the compatibility of traditional notions of hell with the Goodness of the Christian God. His voice is certainly not inhumane. He recognizes … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Moore, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, damnation, David Hart, freedom, God, hell, Lawrence Farley, universal salvation, universalism
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What Does God Know and When Did He Know It?
To be God is to know … everything. He is the Creator who brings beings into being from out of non-being. If something, anything, exists, God knows it; and he knows it completely, exhaustively, immediately. He knows the world from … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged eternity, God, Hugh McCann, omniscience, Richard Swinburne, time
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