The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature write by . This book was released on 1891. The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature
The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature write by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond. This book was released on 1904. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Failure of Natural Theology
The Failure of Natural Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Failure of Natural Theology write by Jeffrey D Johnson. This book was released on 2021-09-15. The Failure of Natural Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristotle's cosmological argument is the foundation of Aquinas's doctrine of God. For Thomas, the cosmological argument not only speaks of God's existence but also of God's nature. By learning that the unmoved mover is behind all moving objects, we learn something true about the essence of God-principally, that God is immobile. But therein lies the problem for Thomas. The Catholic Church had already condemned Aristotle's unmoved mover because, according to Aristotle, the unmoved mover is unable to be the moving cause (i.e., Creator) and governor of the universe-or else he would cease to be immobile. By seeking to baptize Aristotle into the Catholic Church, however, Thomas gave his life to seeking to explain how God can be both immobile and the moving cause of the universe. Thomas even looked to the pantheistic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius for help. But even with Dionysius's aid, Thomas failed to reconcile the god of Aristotle with the Trinitarian God of the Bible. If Thomas would have rejected the natural theology of Aristotle by placing the doctrine of the Trinity, which is known only by divine revelation, at the foundation of his knowledge of God, he would have rid himself of the irresolvable tension that permeates his philosophical theology. Thomas could have realized that the Trinity alone allows for God to be the only self-moving being-because the Trinity is the only being not moved by anything outside himself but freely capable of creating and controlling contingent things in motion.
Christianity and Literature
Christianity and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity and Literature write by David Lyle Jeffrey. This book was released on 2011-02-28. Christianity and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey. First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better or worse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview. In this book Jeffrey and Maillet offer a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies. Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies.
The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature
The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature write by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond. This book was released on 1891. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
