{"id":5308,"date":"2013-11-22T20:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2013-11-22T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:06:26","slug":"7-weird-theologians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/7-weird-theologians\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Weird Theologians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5309 alignright\" style=\"border: 11px solid white;\" alt=\"sickweirdo\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sickweirdo.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sickweirdo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sickweirdo-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sickweirdo-90x65.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Daniel Calder surveys the <a title=\"Top 7 Wierdest Theologians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/top-7-weirdest-christian-theologians\" target=\"_blank\">Top 7 weirdest Christian theologians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, how many are <a title=\"atheistic belief in &quot;God&quot; post\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/5159\" target=\"_blank\">atheists<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Consider, for example,\u00a0<a title=\"John Scotus Eriugena\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/scottus-eriugena\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Scotus Eriugena<\/a> (c.800 &#8211; c.877). The author gives an encyclopedia quote which rings true to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In general, the system of thought just outlined is a combination of neo-Platonic mysticism, emanationism, and pantheism which Eriugena strove in vain to reconcile with Aristotelean empiricism, Christian creationism, and theism. The result is a body of doctrines loosely articulated, in which the mystic and idealistic elements predominate, and in which there is much that is irreconcilable with Catholic dogma. (Catholic Encyclopedia)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does <a title=\"Eriugena's theology\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/scottus-eriugena\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> sound like the God of the Bible to you?<\/p>\n<p>The seventh in his list is <a title=\"Origen posts on trinities\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=origen\" target=\"_blank\">Origen<\/a>. Weird? Most definitely. Atheist? No &#8211; monotheist.<\/p>\n<p>Can you name weirder? Leave links in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Calder surveys the Top 7 weirdest Christian theologians. Of these, how many are atheists? Consider, for example,\u00a0John Scotus Eriugena (c.800 &#8211; c.877). The author gives an encyclopedia quote which rings true to me. In general, the system of thought just outlined is a combination of neo-Platonic mysticism, emanationism, and pantheism which Eriugena strove in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/7-weird-theologians\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 Weird Theologians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5309,"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":[6,4,14,8,9,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-theologians","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","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=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}