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Trinity Sunday (Scott)

Happy Trinity Sunday!

¶ Posted 18 May 2008 § Theories ‡ Comments (0) °

HoG: The Most Divine Content-Fallacy, and ‘Is the Divine Word Practical Knowledge?’ (Scott)

“If I think of pork-products, is that a self-conscious act of thinking?”
What follows is the first of a two part post.
Part 1: The Divine Word as Divine Practical Knowledge
Part 2: If God Weren’t a Trinity, then Creatures Would Necessarily Be Created.
Part 1
In pre-Nicene days (and post-Nicene days) there was much debate about the [...]

¶ Posted 04 January 2008 § Guest Posts § History § Philosophy § Theologians § Theories ‡ Comments (3) °

HoG: “What does it mean to say the Father is ungenerated?” (Scott)

“Is there any Son who does not cause His Father to become a Father and vice versa?”
Here I wish to briefly summarize what I take to be Henry’s position on the question: is the Father constituted by the (personal) property of being ‘ungenerated’ (ingenitum)? Henry’s discussion of this comes from his Summa Quaestionum Ordinariarum 57.1.
Henry [...]

¶ Posted 17 December 2007 § Guest Posts § Heresy & Orthodoxy § History § Philosophy § Theologians § Theories ‡ Comments (23) °

HoG: Intellectual Production of the Word (Scott)

“My god Spock! Is this the apex of human intellectual production?” “No Captain, look within, do you smell that?”
I apologize for the delay in posting. I have been busy with, among other things, my own work.
In the previous post, I enumerated 40 lines of premises and conclusions that generally summarizes Henry’s philosophical psychology of [...]

¶ Posted 06 December 2007 § Guest Posts § Philosophy § Theologians § Theories ‡ Comments (3) °

H.o.G.: Philosophical Psychology at Play with the Father and Word/Son (Scott)

“Will the real H.o.G. please stand up?”
Henry of Ghent was an eclectic theologian. He fancied new theories and adored old theories. When it comes to the doctrine of the Trinity, Henry was a glutton for old and new doctrines. What was old that he liked? His favourite theologian was Augustine, and his favourite book [...]

¶ Posted 16 November 2007 § Guest Posts § History § Philosophy § Theologians ‡ Comments (37) °

MMM Gone Wild at Paris! Or, the Birth of Philosophical Psychology in Trinitarian Theology (Scott)

“All we need is one substance to cure the ills of our society!” “I have personal experience with substance abuse, and it is wrong.”
Before I start a mini-series on the Trinitarian thought of Henry of Ghent, I thought it would be good to offer a brief survey of the late 13th c. landscape. This is [...]