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Standard Orthodox Creedal Trinitarian Christology Is Coherent Therefore Straw Need Not Apply To Complaint Departments The goal in giving various excerpts from various sources and juxtaposing them [...]

Beginning with reason, logic, and reality, we start far from home. Then, along the way, we follow reason as truth-finder as she [1] avoids reductions to absurdity and [2] satisfies her own [...]

To begin, the following is an excerpt out of David Bentley Hart’s “The Experience of God”. Begin Excerpt: In the mechanical view of nature, the physical realm is devoid of simple unities, at [...]

Eight/8 Examples Of Correcting Fallacious Definitions Of Faith: A key factor is the simple fact that one must not invent definitions of another’s terms. In a thread/post at www.STR.org  in [...]

The following is the essay titled “The Illusionist ~ On Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds” which is Chapter 10 out of the book Theological Territories: A [...]

A unified field of apprehending joins the unity of consciousness as we navigate Third Person descriptions and First-Person experiences. The following is (in full) a Copy/Paste from the book [...]

Mind Body Interaction Problem? What Interaction Problem? There cannot be any such “problem” given Being’s Superseding Ontic Over Both Material and Non-Being. Being’s Ontic Weight supersedes the [...]

Resources from many and diverse points of view are included here with the goal of avoiding a monolithic/monochromatic lens by providing a wide array of voices/vantagepoints. Updated periodically [...]

Main Part 1 of 5 Old Testament violence brings out several peculiar lines in the proverbial sand.  Some Christians ((and most narratives of Non-Theistic Critics)) construct a metaphysic as if God [...]

Old Testament Slavery A Brief Look at the Jewish Law of Manumission —By David M. Cobin PDF: a-brief-look-at-the-jewish-law-of-manumission-by-david-m-cobin Source: [...]

Christianity and Slavery: Does It Mean Jesus Isn’t Good After All? https://www.thinkingchristian.net/posts/2020/08/christianity-and-slavery-does-it-mean-jesus-isnt-good-after-all/ How Good Was [...]

The following in its entirety is a quote/excerpt of David Bentley Hart. The consonance or agreement/compatibility amid science and theology is discussed with interesting segues into causality, [...]

Transcript PDF  transcript-of-recovering-hierarchy-of-being-by-david-oderberg— Edward Feser Post https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2020/05/oderberg-on-hierarchy-of-being.html Humane Philosophy [...]

“Science History & Christianity” isn’t merely Science History & Christianity, but, rather, it is Scientific Realism and the Christian Metaphysic and History and therein all lines must [...]

In looking at the Flat Earth “thing/fallacy” vs Aquinas, Dante, Galileo, Scripture, and Science we can start with something from a brief look at inerrancy: A — From the specific [...]

What has come into the consciousness of Mankind in and by and through the uncanny Metanarratives of the Ancient Hebrew are without comparison as we approach the Story or Meta-Narrative of A. the [...]

Some will on occasion mistakenly claim the following: “Some such as W.L. Craig say the Holy Spirit is what convinces us – Full Stop. No need for Evidence.” Notice the intentionally [...]

On occasion the question of “Up Into The Clouds” is used as “evidence” that Scripture’s metanarrative has gone off the rails. That stems from some who are unfamiliar with science and still [...]

“It is not enough simply to remain indifferent to the whole question of God, moreover, because thus understood it is a question ineradicably present in the very mystery of existence, or of [...]

Consciousness And Emergence And Formation by David Bentley Hart https://metachristianity.blogspot.com/2020/01/consciousness-and-emergence-and-formation.html Intentionality, Mental States, Searle, [...]

(1) The Trajectory of All Ontological Arrows Part 1 https://metachristianity.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-trajectory-of-all-ontological-arrows-1.html (2) The Trajectory of All Ontological Arrows Part [...]

TRINITY via The Masters Seminary Journal 2022 With 15 Essays On Trinity & Simplicity & More This can be found at both [...]

The Trinity As A Paradigm For Spiritual Transformation By LT Jeyachandran [1] Version One Is Without Footnotes: The Trinity As A Paradigm For Spiritual Transformation by LT Jeyachandran [...]

Trinity: God Was Manifest In The Flesh I Timothy 3:16 An Examination Of A Disputed Text PDF: [...]

Trinitarian semantic intent in the Prologue of John’s Gospel arrives in An Exemplary Case of the Untranslatable as per the premises in the following excerpt/quote from “The New Testament: A [...]

Trinity: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Filioque for the Twenty First Century — Edited by Myk Habets Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ecumenical-Perspectives-Filioque-21st-Century/dp/0567666050 PDF [...]

PLATONISM? Moral Facts Through All Counterfactuals? Can The Universe Be The Necessary Being?  If Abstract Objects exist how are we (as causal agents) obligated with respect to those (non-causal) [...]

The following is primarily a series of quotes which speak to several questions which naturally come up in topics dealing with Divine Freedom and “Can God Create X / Not Create X?” and “Does God [...]

Irreducible Being? Moral Fact? Logic Itself? Reason Itself? Mind as per Absolute Consciousness? Abstraction’s Transposition? Are THOSE reality’s concrete furniture? One way to see why that [...]

Evil exists. Therefore God. More to the point, Objective Evil exists and therefore God vis-à-vis Being Itself vis-à-vis The Good exists. The horrific evil which exists is precisely that — it [...]

God Sending Lying Spirits? God Sending Evil Spirits? Abraham & Isaac & Kierkegaard’s Paradox? Cyrus & Isaiah 45:7? The Greater Good Fallacy? Who Incited David to Number Israel? [...]

Joining The Eternal Conversation: John’s Prologue and The Language of Worship —By Robert W Jenson. Online PDF Updated PDF Link (Jenson) [...]

Love, Reason, Reality, And The Golden Thread of Reciprocity: The only disclaimer or forewarning is simply that the choice of wording here is going to be intentionally repetitive with respect [...]

Soul, Substance, And Intellect In A Thomistic Approach by James Chastek at Just Thomism The Mode Of Analysis Proper To The Discussion Of The Soul The Importance Of The Mode Of Analysis [...]

Whence The Imago Dei ? What is it that carries “that”? Is it Sentience? Reason? The Rational? Animal Consciousness? When we ask what it means to referent all things Adamic, what it means to be [...]

Christianity’s singular metaphysical landscape houses the irreducible Epicenter of Three distinctions in GOD as Trinity and of the All Sufficient Self-Outpouring of God. That [...]

Unthinking Skeptic Magazine released its latest: What About Miracles In Other Religions? What About Testimony? Mermaids? Alien Abductions? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Zeus? Thor? Copycat-Gods? [...]

On “Parousia” and/or “The Delay of The Parousia” [1 of 8] We must avoid reasoning in a vacuum with respect to “The Delay of The Parousia”.  Broadly speaking the Trio of [...]

At Aquinas Online Joseph M. Magee, Ph.D. interacts with A Theory Of Justice by J. Rawls and shows why Human Laws should, per Thomas Aquinas, advocate tolerance. —Begin Quote/Excerpt— In his [...]

SECTION 1 of 6 Is the proper End of Man something akin to an ontology of love’s fullness?  Is the proper End of all things Adamic in something akin to an ontology of reciprocity’s [...]

The Ontology of Reason? Moral Ontology? Irreducible Moral Facts vis-à-vis Reasoning through reality’s Concrete Furniture? When it comes to Love Itself and to Reality’s Highest Ethic vis-à-vis the [...]

Intuition and Un-Intuition and Metaphysics “On Intuitions” by E. Feser at https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-intuitions.html “Unintuitive Metaphysics” by E. Feser [...]

The World is Flat – The “None”, the “Non-“, the Non-Theist On the term Atheist and its definition, the report of “a lack of evidence” is fairly accurate on the more common definitions in general. [...]

The error of Scientism is an error born of Non-Theism and yet that same error ((Scientism)) infects Christian premises as it leads Christians to follow suit and take [1] God’s Commission of [...]

“….happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks..…” “The Cursings” is the title of a chapter in the book “Reflections On The Psalms” by C.S. Lewis. It is a helpful [...]

Whether or not laptops are designed by non-designed designers carries forward to the causal ecosystems in play. The definition of “designed” does not have to do with fallacious [...]

Non-Theism’s Failure to Follow-Through with The Claim of Evil Within Tooth & Claw “Part 1” is at [...]

Is Dualism In The Quantum Wave? See the three bolded sub-sections in the Blogpost at [...]

Divine Command Theory breaks down and collapses into a logical absurdity as we follow through with its premises and push through to their endpoints as we traverse Logical Impossibility, The Good, [...]

We Are All Pharaoh – We Are All Enoch – We Are All Egypt’s First Born That’s a peculiar statement and it’s not meant to be the “beginning and end” sort of sitting in some kind of [...]

Pain & Suffering is obviously what our Non-Theist friends believe applies in these UN-Natural events and just as obvious is the fact that we need only to remind them of a few key facts: A— On [...]

A quote which expresses a key error:  “….since God knows what each of them would do in every possible situation, he gets to decide, so to speak, what the upshot will be – which world will be [...]

A & S & H – Ananias & Sapphira & Herod There just is no problem with A & S & H where love and grace and Man are concerned. None. We’ll get to specifics a few paragraphs [...]

The PSR doesn’t weigh reality. Reason via the Intentional Self/Mind weighs reality. The race to first principles can be mistaken for a race to the Principle of Sufficient Reason (the PSR) [...]

It is valuable to chase after Reason and Love rather than God “per-se” and find whatever may come our way vis-à-vis the Ontologically Basic vis-à-vis Reason Itself vis-à-vis Being [...]

The Twin-Fallacies of Nothing-But Non-Belief and of Default-Atheism The noetic frame finds various degrees and forms of belief populating the “Doxastic Experience“.  Therefore, before [...]

But What About Hell and God? What About Cosmic Fairness? Step 1 of 12 – Preliminaries: In our shared experience we have our collective mixology of a sense of Irreducible / Cosmic Fairness laced [...]

The Interaction Problem Pure Act does not “Become” with respect to Time & Timelessness. Pure Act does not “Become” with respect to the First Adam. Pure Act does not “Become” with respect to [...]

Pure Act does not “Become” with respect to Time & Timelessness. Pure Act does not “Become” with respect to the First Adam. Pure Act does not “Become” with [...]

A. Less Precise Question: Do Christians & Muslims Worship The Same God? B. More Precise Question: What Is It To Worship In Spirit & In Truth? C. As per [...]

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Reason & Being & Non-Being: “Reason Itself” in the sense of mirroring the “classical theism” phrase of, “Being Itself” is helpful here in several ways. First, a brief definition of [...]

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