Author: Jc Beall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259351X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall's contradictory account of Jesus Christ — and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.
The Contradictory Christ
Author: Jc Beall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259351X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall's contradictory account of Jesus Christ — and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259351X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall's contradictory account of Jesus Christ — and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.
Revelation
Author: Richard Swinburne
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191526487
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The great religions often claim that their books or creeds contain truths revealed by God. How could we know that they do? In the second edition of Revelation, renowned philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne addresses this central question. But since the books of great religions often contain much poetry and parable, Swinburne begins by investigating how eternal truth can be conveyed in unfamiliar genres, by analogy and metaphor, within false presuppositions about science and history. In the final part of the book, Swinburne then applies the results of Parts I and II to assessing the evidence that the teaching of the Christian Church constitutes a revelation from God. In the course of his philosophical exploration, Swinburne considers how the church which Jesus founded is to be identified today and presents a sustained discussion of which passages in the Bible should be understood literally and which should be understood metaphorically. This is a fuller and entirely rewritten second edition of Revelation, the most notable new feature of which is a long chapter examining whether traditional Christian claims about personal morality (divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc.) can be regarded as revealed truths. A formal appendix shows how the structure of evidence supporting the Christian revelation can be articulated in terms of the probability calculus (and shows that Plantinga's well-known argument from 'dwindling probabilities' against probabilistic arguments of this kind is not cogent).
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191526487
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The great religions often claim that their books or creeds contain truths revealed by God. How could we know that they do? In the second edition of Revelation, renowned philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne addresses this central question. But since the books of great religions often contain much poetry and parable, Swinburne begins by investigating how eternal truth can be conveyed in unfamiliar genres, by analogy and metaphor, within false presuppositions about science and history. In the final part of the book, Swinburne then applies the results of Parts I and II to assessing the evidence that the teaching of the Christian Church constitutes a revelation from God. In the course of his philosophical exploration, Swinburne considers how the church which Jesus founded is to be identified today and presents a sustained discussion of which passages in the Bible should be understood literally and which should be understood metaphorically. This is a fuller and entirely rewritten second edition of Revelation, the most notable new feature of which is a long chapter examining whether traditional Christian claims about personal morality (divorce, homosexuality, abortion, etc.) can be regarded as revealed truths. A formal appendix shows how the structure of evidence supporting the Christian revelation can be articulated in terms of the probability calculus (and shows that Plantinga's well-known argument from 'dwindling probabilities' against probabilistic arguments of this kind is not cogent).
Victor La Tourette. A Novel
Author: Edward Augustus Warriner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385396786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385396786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
It Could Have Been Otherwise
Author: Hester Gelber
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047405595
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume deals with the Dominicans at Oxford University from 1300-1350. It describes the history of the Oxford friary, who the friars were, who were there, how they were chosen and the intellectual life they created. It develops the idea of the friary as a “conversational community.” The theology of four friars is dealt with in depth: Hugh of Lawton, Arnold of Strelley, William Crathorn and Robert Holcot, relying often on unedited manuscript sources. The focus is on their response to the modal theory of Duns Scotus and Ockham. Discussions of necessity, contingency, divine foreknowledge, a deceiver God, invincible ignorance, and God’s absolute power, are highly ingenious. Several develop an “obligational theology” based on the technique of obligational debate.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047405595
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume deals with the Dominicans at Oxford University from 1300-1350. It describes the history of the Oxford friary, who the friars were, who were there, how they were chosen and the intellectual life they created. It develops the idea of the friary as a “conversational community.” The theology of four friars is dealt with in depth: Hugh of Lawton, Arnold of Strelley, William Crathorn and Robert Holcot, relying often on unedited manuscript sources. The focus is on their response to the modal theory of Duns Scotus and Ockham. Discussions of necessity, contingency, divine foreknowledge, a deceiver God, invincible ignorance, and God’s absolute power, are highly ingenious. Several develop an “obligational theology” based on the technique of obligational debate.
Negating Negation
Author: Timothy D Knepper
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227902653
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
'Negating Negation' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things of an absolutely ineffable God; rather, it negates few things of a God that is effable in important ways. Dionysian divine names are not inadequate metaphors or impotent attributes but transcendent divine causes. Divine names are not therefore flatly negated of God but removed as ordinary properties to be revealed as divine causes. It is concluded that since the Dionysian corpus does not abandon all things to apophasis, it cannot be called to testify on behalf of (post)modern projects in religious pluralism and anti-ontotheology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability.
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227902653
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
'Negating Negation' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things of an absolutely ineffable God; rather, it negates few things of a God that is effable in important ways. Dionysian divine names are not inadequate metaphors or impotent attributes but transcendent divine causes. Divine names are not therefore flatly negated of God but removed as ordinary properties to be revealed as divine causes. It is concluded that since the Dionysian corpus does not abandon all things to apophasis, it cannot be called to testify on behalf of (post)modern projects in religious pluralism and anti-ontotheology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability.
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings
Author: Michael J. Almeida
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135894612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational dilemmas, and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challenges and the Anselmian responses with an unusual degree of precision. Almeida shows that the challenges arising in the unusual contexts involving unlimited options sometimes produce metaphysical surprise.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135894612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational dilemmas, and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challenges and the Anselmian responses with an unusual degree of precision. Almeida shows that the challenges arising in the unusual contexts involving unlimited options sometimes produce metaphysical surprise.
Principles of Nature
Author: Elihu Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Vicar of Christ, Or, Lectures Upon the Office and Perogatives of Our Holy Father the Pope
Author: T. S. Preston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Apocalypse Explained: Chapters VII-X
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athanasianism
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Christian Philosophical Theology
Author: Stephen T. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199284598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An explanation and defence of various crucial aspects of Christian theology, including why people don't believe in God, why people should believe in God, the nature of God, the Trinity, the person of Christ, the resurrection of Jesus, the resurrection of human beings, Christian redemption, and theological method.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199284598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An explanation and defence of various crucial aspects of Christian theology, including why people don't believe in God, why people should believe in God, the nature of God, the Trinity, the person of Christ, the resurrection of Jesus, the resurrection of human beings, Christian redemption, and theological method.