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Tag Archives: God
Reading our way out of the Trinity
Over the past several years, I have watched on social media evangelicals and Protestants vigorously contest the doctrine of the Trinity. Is it supported by the plain reading of Holy Scripture? Is it truly biblical? Analytic philosopher Dale Tuggy has … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Holy Trinity
Tagged Bible, Eastern Orthodoxy, evangelicalism, God, hermeneutics, Holy Scripture, sola scriptura, Trinity
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Eclectic Thoughts on Holy Trinity: Person, Essence, Energy, and Stuff Like That
by Robert F. Fortuin There is an observation by David Hart in the essay ‘The Hidden and the Manifest’ worthy of further consideration. The comment occurs in his critique of Thomist and Neo-Palamite readings of patristic distinctions within God: There … Continue reading
Posted in Robert Fortuin
Tagged energies, essence, God, Holy Trinity, John Chrysostom, John of Damascus, person, Zizioulas
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The Absolute Freedom of the Simple Life
In the preceding article, “An Utterly Simple State of Affairs,” we were left with questions about divine freedom: specifically, if the act of creation of essential to the divine being, as Hugh McCann claims, how does this not entail the … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann
Tagged divine creation, divine freedom, divine nature, divine simplicity, God, libertarian freedom, modal collapse, universals
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An Utterly Simple State of Affairs
If God is the Absolute who stops all the bucks, the answer to our most profound existential and metaphysical questions, then he must be characterized by an absence of parts and potency; otherwise, classical theists maintain, we would still find … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann
Tagged divine creation, divine freedom, divine simplicity, God, Hugh McCann, ipsum esse, modal collapse, necessity, Ryan Mullins
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On the Putative Threat of Modal Collapse Within the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity
by Alexander Earl Prompted by Dionysius’s doctrine of God and its Neoplatonic foundations, the question of Divine freedom has been the subject of theological reflection on this blog for the past few months. That it would become a sustained avenue of … Continue reading
Hugh McCann and the Simplicity of Divinity
The late Hugh J. McCann characterizes his book Creation and the Sovereignty of God as an exercise in perfect being theology: “I wish to defend the thesis that God is an absolutely perfect being, who as creator exercises complete sovereignty over … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann
Tagged analytic philosophy, divine freedom, divine simplicity, God, Hugh McCann
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