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As John of Damascus would later put it, here quoted by Thomas later still, “We cannot know what God is, but only what he is not.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
John disagrees with the Aristotelians in refusing substantiality to particular things. He calls Plato the summit of philosophers. But the first three of his kinds of being are derived indirectly from Aristotle’s moving-not-moved, moving-and-moved, moved-but-not-moving. The fourth kind of being in John’s system, that which neither creates nor is
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He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The primary rule of hermeneutics was called the “analogy of faith.”
R. C. Sproul • Knowing Scripture
There are, he says, only three proofs of God’s existence by pure reason; these are the ontological proof, the cosmological proof, and the physico-theological proof.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Occam is best known for a maxim which is not to be found in his works, but has acquired the name of “Occam’s razor.” This maxim says: “Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity.” Although he did not say this, he said something which has much the same effect, namely: “It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.” That is to say,
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