Classical theism or Theistic personalism? - The Philosophy Forum
2022年1月25日 · What does everyone think about the debate between classical theism (that God exists outside of time and does not have parts) and theistic personalism (that God is a person and likewise exists in time and has parts). I have always been convinced that classical theism is more logical, God being both immanent in the world and transcendent beyond it.
Classical theism - The Philosophy Forum
You'll often hear classical theists, and here think of Aquinas as a paradigmatic historic example thereof, claim that God is not a being among beings, but being itself. It's an interesting claim because it pulls the rug out from under contemporary atheism and theism, since both make exactly the...
Classical theism or Theistic personalism? - The Philosophy Forum
The God of Classical theism is the Neoplatonic God, Plotinus' God, at least a variant of it. There is definitely tension between these two models of God. There is also a Neo-Classical God that approaches Theistic Personalism. Ryan Mullins makes a good case for this.
Classical theism and William Lane Craig's theistic personalism
2024年3月22日 · So, the reason Davies labels the rejection of classical theism “theistic personalism” is not that he thinks God is impersonal. The reason is rather that he takes theistic personalists to start with the idea that God is a particular instance of the general kind “person” and to go from there.
Cosmology & evolution: theism vs deism vs accidentalism
2024年11月23日 · The scientific cosmology of THEISM vs DEISM vs ACCIDENTALISM In his 2021 book, Return of the God Hypothesis, historian & geo-physicist Stephen Meyer makes a detailed case (science-based and non-scriptural) for Intelligent Design (ID) in evolution as opposed to Dumb Accidents (DA)*1. He's...
Classical Liberalism vs Classical Conservatism - The Philosophy …
2018年3月29日 · I assume most people using this website are Americans, as I have seen a few of the threads and they are largely U.S. politics based. American liberalism has developed since 1776 and there hasn’t been a real “conservative” following, mostly because the fact of a constitution in name has given the...
Which is more difficult to learn: classical Greek or German?
Well, once upon a time I learned to read classical Greek, whereas German has been way beyond me. The thing is mixed up heavily with matters like emotional reactions to Germany, I reckon, partly because I find their novels-in-translation almost unreadable.
When Aquinas meets Husserl: Phenomenological Thomism and …
2023年11月28日 · It is through a marriage of the classical Aristotelian-Thomist tradition and the modern phenomenological-existential tradition that we find an objective ethical and metaphysical dogma; One needs both objective fact and subjective experience to understand reality.
Is the distinction between metaphysical realism & anti realism …
2024年12月4日 · Overall, this resonates with me, with the caveat that I think classical theism is not well understood or favoured. But it is true about naturalism - not that many here tend to consciously defend that view, but it's the assumed background to debate. The human mind is an evolved capacity reliant on the physical brain and evolution.
Sin, will, and theism - The Philosophy Forum
2019年8月31日 · The classical God lived in the firmament, aka the sky. They thought the sky was a hard dome. It isn't a dome, so classical theism is false. To the oppressed, the inability to forgive is a curse. Bitterness mangles the soul and transforms the innocent heart into that of a monster.