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Tag Archives: Kathryn Tanner
Is God the Author of Sin?
Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodicies seek to protect God from responsibility for human evil. That’s the upshot of … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, divine sovereignty, evil, free will, God, human freedom, Kathryn Tanner, providence, sin, theodicy
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God Makes Us Freely Acting
“We seem almost compelled,” remarks Hugh McCann, “to think there is some competition here: that when it comes to free will there is no way that both we and God can both have legitimate prerogatives, no way that one can … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged determinism, divine agency, divine creation, divine sovereignty, free will, God, human freedom, Kathryn Tanner
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God Differs Differently: How Divine Transcendence Makes Possible the God-Man
Docetism, Sabellianism, Subordinationism, Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism—we know the names of the famous heresies that plagued the Church during the first millennium. Perhaps we can even describe them and explain why they were rejected. But what may not be clear in … Continue reading
Creatio ex Nihilo: The Grammar of Agency
Until we grasp the radical transcendence of the eternal Creator, we cannot think rightly either his providential action in the world or of the peculiar freedom that we, as creatures, enjoy in him. Like the ancient Greeks we typically conceive … Continue reading
Creatio ex Nihilo: The Grammar of Transcendence
“The Rule of Truth that we hold is this: There is one God Almighty, who created all things through His Word. He both prepared and made all things out of nothing, just as Scripture says: For by the word of … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged apophatic, creatio ex nihilo, creation, God, Irenaeus, Kathryn Tanner, language for God, monism, transcendence
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