{"id":1078,"date":"2009-10-12T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2010-01-01T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:48:19","slug":"incarnation-the-internet-encyclopedia-of-philosophy-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/incarnation-the-internet-encyclopedia-of-philosophy-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Incarnation&#8221; @ the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Dale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1080 alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid white;\" title=\"brilliant\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/brilliant1.jpg\" alt=\"brilliant\" width=\"329\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/brilliant1.jpg 365w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/brilliant1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/brilliant1-90x64.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the team at the <a title=\"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/\"><strong>Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/strong><\/a>, for<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>their recent <strong>radical re-design<\/strong>, done by <a title=\"Josh May's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joshdmay.com\/blog\/\">Josh D. May<\/a>. Notable improvements include a nice print-friendly page feature, and the entries sorted by topic. Here are the <a title=\"Philosophy of Religion articles and IEP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/category\/m-and-e\/religion\/\">Philosophy of Religion<\/a> ones.<\/li>\n<li>their <a title=\"&quot;Incarnation&quot; at IEP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/incarnat\/\">new entry <strong>&#8220;Incarnation&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>, by University of Wisconsin Madison PhD David Werther, who teaches in their division of Continuing Studies. He does an excellent job of keeping it simple; it&#8217;s a brief and clear introduction to the Incarnation as treated by analytic philosophers, and is by design pretty ahistorical.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Missing in #2 are references to, if not summaries of, <strong>Tom Senor&#8217;s work<\/strong>, particularly his criticisms of the Stump\/Leftow property-borrowing approach, and of the hoary qua-move. Maybe a couple of references to Hick would be appropriate as well, e.g. his criticism of two-minds theories. Positively, maybe a reference to van Inwagen on relative identity. But on the whole, I thought it was well done &#8211; congrats to David. And I hope we see more philosophical theology in the IEP.<\/p>\n<p>One quick reflection:<!--more--> the piece is, like analytic philosophy tends to be,<strong> rather narrowly focused<\/strong>. There&#8217;s a problem of consistency while trying to stay in the bounds of orthodoxy &#8211; that&#8217;s it. I think there&#8217;s rather more to it&#8230; biblical interpretation in particular, and also the Incarnation in relation to Christian spirituality, and to wider issues in theology (e.g. atonement theories). I&#8217;m not criticizing the piece &#8211; a summary of such a rich and carefully wrought bunch of arguments <em>should be<\/em> tightly focused. My point is rather that we Christian philosophers need to approach these doctrine as thinking Christians, and not merely as philosophers &#8211; people who accomplish a narrow task (see &#8211; not provably inconsistent!) and then punt on all other issues (not my job, pal). Philosophical theology can take in a wider set of concerns without ceasing to be philosophical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the team at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for their recent radical re-design, done by Josh D. May. Notable improvements include a nice print-friendly page feature, and the entries sorted by topic. Here are the Philosophy of Religion ones. their new entry &#8220;Incarnation&#8221;, by University of Wisconsin Madison PhD David Werther, who teaches&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/incarnation-the-internet-encyclopedia-of-philosophy-dale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Incarnation&#8221; @ the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Dale)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christology","category-incarnation","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}