Tag Archives: Richard Swinburne

How Anthropomorphic is your G-O-D?

Posted on 5 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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What Does God Know and When Did He Know It?

Posted on 2 November 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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A Conversation with St Paul on Exegesis and Authorial Meaning

Posted on 4 September 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Have you ever found yourself reading the Epistle to the Romans and thought, “It sure would be nice if St Paul were here and could explain to me what he meant when he wrote, ‘For we hold that a man … Continue reading →

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Reading Scripture as non-Scripture: Sola Scriptura and the Hermeneutics of Historical Artifact

Posted on 15 August 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“By what right do you claim the Bible for your church and exclude mine?” Let me come clean right from the start. I believe that the Holy Orthodox Church is the Church founded by Jesus Christ and his Apostles. I … Continue reading →

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Prisoner of Time: The Temporal Deity of Analytic Theology

Posted on 28 November 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

As a follow-up to my recent article on open theism, I thought I’d begin reading Creation and the Sovereignty of God by Hugh J. McCann. McCann stands in the analytic philosophical tradition and is known as a strong advocate of classical theism. I am … Continue reading →

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Perfect Being Theology, Theistic Personalism, and the Eclipse of the Apophatic

Posted on 30 May 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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To Be or Not to Be: The Christian Distinction

Posted on 4 May 2015 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“‘It ain’t obvious what’s obvious,’ at least not in philosophy,” quips Bill Vallicella, quoting Hilary Putnam. I guess I walked right into that friendly gibe. After all, I did remark that “God, as conceived by Christians, is not a being … Continue reading →

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Are Christians Polytheists?

Posted on 7 May 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

If Father, Son, and Spirit are each divine, then why are they not three gods? We are finally prepared to look more closely at St Gregory of Nyssa’s provocative answer in his Ad Ablabium. As we have seen, Gregory has … Continue reading →

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