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Tag Archives: God
When Making Makes No Nuttin’ Difference
We have to be careful. It’s easy to misconstrue the Christian claim that God has created the universe out of nothing. In his popular book Theology and Sanity, Frank Sheed writes: God made it. And He made it of nothing. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged big bang, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, Denys Turner, divine creation, God, Herbert McCabe, nothing
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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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How Anthropomorphic is your G-O-D?
Confession time: for most of my parochial ministry, I was a theistic personalist, to use the term coined by Brian Davies. “Egads! Tell me that’s not true.” “Yes, I’m afraid so.” “But what is a theistic personalist?” “Someone who espouses … Continue reading
The Mystery of One
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai echad The confession of the one God is the great gift of Israel to the world—a gift not of philosophical speculation but of divine revelation. “Hear, Israel, the Lord … Continue reading
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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