{"id":2251,"date":"2010-07-23T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T02:45:14","slug":"on-positive-mysterianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/on-positive-mysterianism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Positive Mysterianism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2252\" width=\"417\" height=\"379\" title=\"zoidberg_hooray\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray.jpg 483w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray-420x382.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray-460x418.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zoidberg_hooray-90x82.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My <a title=\"pre-print @ my home page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/dale\/On%20Positive%20Mysterianism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;On Positive Mysterianism&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> has been published in the <a title=\"pre-print @ Dale's homepage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/social+sciences\/religious+studies\/journal\/11153\" target=\"_blank\"><em>International Journal for Philosophy of Religion<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks to theologian\u00a0<a title=\"James' home page\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proginosko.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James Anderson<\/strong><\/a> (<a title=\"James Anderson's blog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/proginosko.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>) for significant correspondence &#8211; he&#8217;s intellectually honest, smart, tough-minded, and humble &#8211; a pleasure to argue with. Thanks also to my\u00a0colleagues\u00a0for enduring multiple drafts and re-writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper, my main task is evaluating the mysterianism of <a title=\"my review of his book\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James&#8217;s book<\/a>. My view may be <strong>more nuanced that some would guess<\/strong>, based on my earlier work. I concede that <em>in principle<\/em> it <em>can<\/em> be reasonable to believe an apparent contradiction. I&#8217;m not optimistic about the actual prospects of having such beliefs, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that James and I mostly <strong>disagree about the Bible<\/strong>, not about epistemology &#8211; he strongly endorsing, and me eschewing apparently contradictory interpretations of it regarding God and Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper, especially the first part, has a lot to do with this <a title=\"Dealing with Apparent Contradictions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=Dealing+with+Apparent+Contradictions&amp;searchsubmit=Find\" target=\"_blank\">long series<\/a> here at trinities, though it is more focused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper on the rationality of believing apparent contradictions in theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","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":[21,4,8,20,47,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-linkage","category-mystery","category-papers","category-philosophy","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42474,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/42474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}