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Linkage: Impossible World Site and Blog (Dale)
Check it out: a whole site and blog devoted to art featuring impossible objects! I can’t help but think that the picture above had a trinitarian inspiration: according to the babelfish, it means “You...
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Dealing with Apparent Contradictions: Part 19 – Review of Antognazza on Leibniz
Maria Rosa Antognazza teaches at King’s College London, where she also directs the Centre for the History of Philosophical Theology. She has written a highly praised forthcoming intellectual biography...
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Don’t think/write like a contemporary theologian – Part 5 – identity blabber
Barak Hussein Obama, as I write this, enjoys untold legions of fans. Some of them identify him with Jesus, or with Abe Lincoln, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or Moses. What I just said is true. But...
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“Trinity” @ the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Little known fact: overwork causes one’s neck to become invisible! After an embarrassing amount of time, I’ve finally finished my encyclopedia entry on the Trinity for the Stanford Encyclopedia of...
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Book review: Randal Rauser’s Faith Lacking Understanding
Note: this review originally appeared in Religious Studies Review. FAITH LACKING UNDERSTANDING: THEOLOGY ‘THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY’. By Randal Rauser. Colorado Springs, CO: Paternoster, 2008. This...
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Linkage: Mavericking Mysteries
Just be glad I didn’t pick a picture of John McCain! Over at the Maverick Philosopher, Bill Vallicella and some others have been on a tear of philosophical theology, specifically on appeal to mysteries...
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Gregory of Nazianzus – an early dialetheist? (Dale)
Philosopher Graham Priest is notorious for his claim that there are true contradictions. I have to confess that when I first heard this years ago, I thought the people telling me were pulling my leg....
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Here’s sound advice for non-philosophers, including theologians, who are interested in philosophy, in an interview with distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson. The interview starts slowly, but...
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Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate, Ch. 23
Now, to resume our drawn out and often-stalled series on Richard of St. Victor, in which we blog through the entirety of book III of his De Trinitate (On the Trinity), in which he famously /...
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Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate, Ch. 24 (Dale)
In chapter 24, Richard says that Certainly one and the same substance is not something greater or lesser, better or worse than itself. Therefore, [there are no inequalities among members of the...
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Scoring the Burke – Bowman Debate – Intro
Over at Parchment and Pen, there’s a six week, six-installment debate starting over “the” doctrine of the Trinity. That is, what I’ve elsewhere called the orthodox formulas – that each Person “is” God,...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Burke 1
In round 1, Burke explains that he’s a biblical unitarian, not a “rationalist” or “universalist” unitarian. Further, he confesses that: Jesus Christ is the Son of God, but not God himself and The Holy...
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Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate, Ch. 25 (Dale)
At long last, we’ve reached the 25th and last chapter of book three of Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate! (Here are the other Richard-related posts here @ trinities.) Richard starts off with the...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Bowman 1
I take it the purpose of the debate is whether or not “the” doctrine of the Trinity is derivable from the Bible. What is this doctrine, exactly? The burden falls on Bowman to be clear about just what...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Burke 2
There’s a lot of meat in Burke’s second round, and both his and Bowman’s second rounds were cleaner, more free of stray punches than round 1. Here I offer some summaries and brief comments on Burke. In...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Bowman 2
In round 2, Bowman descends to close combat on a few central texts. But first, he makes the methodological point that it is too easy to claim simply that your preferred texts are clear, whereas the...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Bowman 3
In my comments on his first salvo, I wondered exactly what Trinity doctrine Bowman means to defend. (Some kind of modalism?) After round two, I said that Bowman has owned up to affirming a...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Burke 3
In round 3, Burke comes out swinging and swinging. But how much does he connect? In my judgment, somewhat. Here’s an overview of his case, with some critical comments, and at the end I score the round....
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – Round 4 Part 1
In this post I venture to offer some debate advice: be very hesitant to accuse your opponent of a logical fallacy. First, your lack of sympathy for his position can easily cause you to be see ones...
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SCORING THE BURKE – BOWMAN DEBATE – ROUND 4 PART 2 – BOWMAN
In part 1 I argued that Bowman attributes a non-existent fallacy to unitarians. After this faltering start, things get better. Continuing his pre-emptive rebuttal, Bowman argues that there is nothing...
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