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Spinoza’s claim that all things are in God, a doctrine now known as panentheism, undercut this anthropomorphic theology and challenged the crudely moralistic view of the human good that was based upon it.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Clare Carlisle, • Spinoza's Ethics
“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
It asserted that ministry is the very event that unveils God’s action in the world. This is not because it is the rubbing of some bottle that brings God forth like a genie, but rather because God is a minister, constantly and continually acting in the world to minister new life out of death. God calls human ministers to echo God’s own personhood by
... See moreAndrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)
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distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons,
Sam Harris • Free Will
And the third crisis, through which we’re living? That, Professor Rex argued, involves “. . . a question that would once have been expressed as ‘What is man?’ The fact that this wording is now itself seen as problematic is a symptom of the very condition it seeks to diagnose. What is it, in other words, to be human?” That, Rex rightly contends, is
... See moreGeorge Weigel • The Catholic Crisis Over “Us”
John D. Caputo: The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers: Volume 4: 2001–2004: Continental Philosophy of Religion
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The most significant continuity is that both deny grace; in other words, both modernity and postmodernity are characterized by an idolatrous notion of self-sufficiency and a deep