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Showing posts with label 02.Ultimate.Reality.God.Metaphysics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 02.Ultimate.Reality.God.Metaphysics. Show all posts
2024-03-17

You are a Theophany

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Every single person is a theophany. May we all see God’s image in each and every person God puts in our path, and welcome them as we would w...
2023-12-02

The Panentheism of Creation in Christ

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Recently a friend online asked me a great question: "Can you tell me why you think (if you do) the creature / Creator distinction is es...
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2023-10-15

The Complexity of Love's Simplicity

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After posting my last essay , Fr. Kimel has noted that David Bentley Hart affirms Divine Simplicity in many places and "divine simplici...
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Divine Simplicity is simply too simple

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Recently the amazing Fr. Aidan Kimel has written an article on how the " free will theodicy " is incompatible with Thomas Aquinas...
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2023-06-28

The Many Loves of the Love of God

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When we speak of the Love of God, or praise God for God's Loving-Kindness, we are remembering that above all, God is Love. But this Love...
2023-01-01

Scriptures on experiencing Divine Light

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I figured I would start the year with a little Bible study. Here are some things that Scripture tells us about Divine Light and how we may e...
2022-07-27

The Metaphysics of Materialism

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Materialist determinism is a perpetually popular view in the modern world. It is the metaphysical viewpoint which denies metaphysics by posi...
2022-07-15

Why God cannot be evil

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Recently I was in a discussion in which someone asked whether God could be evil. Is it possible that the Ultimate Reality that is the source...
2022-06-11

Is Love stronger than hate?

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The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion....
2021-12-30

Resurrecting the Matrix: An Ideological Review

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I just saw Matrix Resurrections. Here are my responses in no particular order:
2021-03-08

God is...

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The undeconstructable Love  Which shines as a Light  In the darkness Calling us to unfurl  Beckoning us to grow  Into our fullest and best s...
2021-01-16

A Provocation on the Constant of Change

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The common sense insight that “the only constant is change” may have more going for it philosophically than we give to most platitudes. If c...
2020-05-16

Theological Topology: Placing the Trinity in Reality

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At first glance, topology and theology have nothing to do with each other. Theology , on one hand, is "the rational discussion of God...
2020-04-03

When Words Fail

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How both Theistic and Nontheistic language fails to describe Ultimate Reality In the constant back and forth between Theists and Nonthe...
2019-05-17

Visions of Ultimate Reality

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Ultimate Reality and Visions of Truth The goal of our spiritual journey is to explore what is True, pursue what is Good, and practice wha...
2019-01-28

In the Divine Symphony: Why I think God is Real

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In the school where I am chaplain, two of the skills we try to teach students are: First, how to build an evidence-based argument, and se...
2018-11-05

A Provocation on Polytheism

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I used to think polytheism was ludicrous. But if I didn't know better, I would think that old gods with names like Mars and Mammon, Eros...
2018-07-09

Credo: The Story that Reads Us [A Mini-Systemic Theology]

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This was originally written in 2006 in partial fulfillment of requirements for Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology at South...
2018-06-17

Why God feels sorrow and joy

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Is God able to truly feel sorrow over our failures? Does God truly rejoice with our successes? Today in Church our lectionary included th...
2018-02-07

God, Gender, and Washington Episcopalians

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Recently the Episcopal Diocese of Washington passed a resolution about gendered language and God, and the internet, predictably, went cr...