Sunday, June 01, 2014

Does God have covenantal properties?

http://paulhelmsdeep.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-motivates-oliphints-proposals.html

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  1. Very provocative. I'm glad to see Helm carefully interacting with these lines of thought, and with the theologians who are advancing them.

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  2. Oliphint's model reminds me of the Moreland/Craig proposal on the incarnation.

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    1. I think Oliphint is out of his depth.

      Except for Thomistic simplicity, I generally agree with classical theism.

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    3. Just curious: on pages 154-156 of "God with Us," Oliphint favors the metaphysics of contemporary analytic modalism over classical "substance metaphysics." Seeing you reject "Thomistic simplicity," what metaphysics are you committed to?

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    4. That's a big question. To give two examples, I'm partial to the Augustinian exemplarist tradition. On a related note, I favor theistic conceptual realism (a la Greg Welty, James Anderson).

      Finally, I think the Trinity informs us that symmetry is a fundamental feature of ultimate reality. Symmetry is the coincidentia oppositorum of the one-over-many.

      Does that answer your question?

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