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Tag Archives: God
Perichoretic Trinity in Transcendence
Just how personal are the divine persons? We know that when the Eastern Church sought an appropriate vocabulary by which to distinguish the Father, Son, and Spirit from the divine substance, it finally settled on the impersonal word hypostasis, which … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism of Christ, David Hart, divine communion, divine persons, God, Holy Trinity, hypostasis, Khaled Anatolios, social trinity
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Trinity, Logic, and the Transcendence of Transcendence
Philosopher Dale Tuggy believes he has a decisive proof against the coherency of the catholic doctrine of the Trinity. It goes like this: God is a personal being, i.e., a self. By “self” is understood a being who is conscious, … Continue reading
Analytic Theology and the One God: Where is the Mystery?
Once the transcendence of Transcendence has been properly grasped, many of the objections advanced against the catholic doctrine of the Holy Trinity lose their persuasive power. Perhaps they have some purchase among analytic philosophers attached to the univocity of being; … Continue reading
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Tagged analytic theology, apophatic, Dale Tuggy, divine unity, God, Islam, Judaism, monotheism
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Nicene Metaphysics: Apprehending the Transcendence
It’s not clear in my own mind precisely when I began to make the connection between creatio ex nihilo and the metaphysical revolution initiated by the first two ecumenical councils and the theologians we now identify as the Pro-Nicene Fathers (St … Continue reading
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Tagged Arius, Athanasius, Dale Tuggy, David Hart, God, Jesus Christ, Nicaea, subordinationism, Trinity
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Uncreated and Created: How Flexible is Your Monotheism?
And then there was Arius … The Arian crisis of the fourth century dramatically changed the theological landscape of catholic Christianity. Historians of the past few decades have published important works on the crisis, shedding new light on the important … Continue reading
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Tagged Bert Ehrman, creatio ex nihilo, Dale Tuggy, God, monolatry, monotheism, Second Temple Judaism, Trinity
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Trinity, Creation, and the Christian Distinction
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor 13:14). The triadic benediction does not surprise us. We have heard it countless times from … Continue reading
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Tagged creatio ex nihilo, Dale Tuggy, divine transcendence, God, Robert Sokolowski, Trinity
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Ante-Nicene Subordinationism and the Unitarian Narrative
So how did we get from trinity to Trinity, from the one God with his Son and Holy Spirit to the tri-personal God in which each person is ontologically distinct and yet equally divine? As we saw in “Once Upon … Continue reading
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Tagged Dale Tuggy, David Hart, God, Jesus Christ, Origen, subordinationism, Trinity, unitarianism
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