C.S. Lewis on Nature and Reasoning about God
In the Introduction to The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis tells us the reasons he used to give when people would ask him why he was an...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 5 min
Reading Religion in Lord of the Rings
The Ainulindalë is the name of the first part of Silmarillion. It is the creation story of Tolkien's Middle Earth, and demonstrates that...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Love for God, Hope for Me
Duns Scotus tells us that the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love perfect us as "wayfarers" on our way to heaven. Faith...
- Jul 28, 2019
- 4 min
Why Some People Think God is Beyond Being and Why They are Wrong
In an effort to get God out of the Laplacean problem of being merely a quasi-scientific hypothesis which may be accepted or rejected on...
- Jun 21, 2019
- 5 min
Why Care about the Theory of Divine Ideas? Part 2 of 2
Yesterday I shared some notes about why I think a theory of divine ideas is important for theology. Today I’m sharing some notes about...
- Jun 20, 2019
- 3 min
Why Care about the Theory of Divine Ideas? Part 1 of 2
Here is a sketch of some of the theological motivation for a theory of Divine Ideas. I also say something about what I take such a theory...
- May 31, 2019
- 2 min
Divine Ideas and Egyptian Theology
I just "discovered" a text which is very well-known to Egyptologists and students of Ancient Egypt. Miriam Lichtheim published it as "The...
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Religious Experience in Ancient Egypt
This week I'm reading a book about the development of monotheism in Ancient Egypt, James K. Hoffmeier's Akhenaten and the Origins of...
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Duns Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom
I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the...
- Feb 7, 2019
- 3 min
Divine Simplicity and the Division of Being
On a more or less standard Christian understanding of the world, God is the creator of everything that exists, other than himself. This...
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
Worship-Worthiness
This semester's reading list has me thinking about Anselm's Proslogion back to back with Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will. Each...
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