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Guest post: Questioning Craig’s “Trinity Monotheism” – Part 2
“It seems that Dr. Craig…in his attempt to equalize the persons has not only failed to elevate Jesus to the status of a god but has brought the Father down to his level. It is a reverse homoousion…”
Nothing New Under the Sun – Part 1
Now for another historical interlude – I’ll get back to current philosophy shortly. Regular readers will note that I’ve been insinuating for a while now that the way many people understand the mainstream, so-called “Latin” trinitarian position amounts to a certain variety of modalism (which entails S-modalism, to which I’ve objected). Some of you know that I also work on what philosophers call “early modern”… Read More »Nothing New Under the Sun – Part 1
podcast 270 – Origen’s “one God”
Origen sez: you must say that Father and Son are “one God.” But does he think they are?
some additional thoughts about my demon-puppet objection
Does my thought experiment offered as an objection to some Incarnation theories only show that a demon too could become a man?
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 the Trinity. There are one or two things that ought to be clarified.
I have posted some responses to Dale’s post in the Comments section of his post.
I would like to elaborate on two issues in this post.
1. Why must the divine intellect be perfectly actual? (pace Dale’s 2nd objection)
2. Why must the divine intellect have two powers, an operative power and a productive power?
In regards to 1, Henry generally follows Anselm’s perfect being theology program. In this program, when we attribute some property to God we should follow the rule: ‘whatever it is simply better to have than not have we should attribute to God’. This property that it is simply better to have than not to have in medieval speak is called a ‘pure perfection’. A pure perfection is some property that it is simply better to have than not to have it. A pure perfection is some property x that is not considered as a pure perfection with regard to some species-nature. It is not a question of whether ‘it is better for my fish Nigel to be a Ninja or not’, but whether it is simply better to be a Ninja or not. A comparison to some species is not at issue here. For example, if it is better to be wise than not be wise, we should say that God is wise. If it is better to be loving than not to be loving, we should say that God is loving. If it is better to be stupid than not stupid, we should attribute ‘being stupid’ to God. But, our intuitions lead us to think that being wise and being just are simply better to have than not to have; yet being stupid is something we wouldn’t attribute to God because it is actually better to not be stupid, than to be stupid.
Read More »HoG: Intellectual Production of the Word (Scott)
Answer to Angeliqua’s “The 1-2 Punch Against the Charge that Trinity is Tritheism”
Dialogue with an apologist about changes of tritheism and “the doctrine of the Trinity.”
Bird on Justin Martyr on the Logos
For Justin, is Jesus “distinct in number, but not in substance” from the Father?
James White responds to the Challenge, sort of
A pound of misunderstanding and irrelevance together with a little pinch of relevant but inadequate response.
Kimel’s review of What is the Trinity – Part 3
What Origen actually says vs. what trinitarians wish that he’d said.
podcast 248 – How Trinity theories conflict with the Bible
The Father ain’t the Trinity. So, God can’t be both.
Dialogue with John on Thinking about the Trinity
At his blog Faith & Scripture, my friend John interacts with the questions for the reader in chapter 10.
response to Hays’s “review” of What is the Trinity?
Rebutting a slanderous and careless “review” by a blogger.
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