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Showing posts with label 09.Providence.Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 09.Providence.Freedom. Show all posts
2024-03-09

Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope

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Recently a friend of mine posted a neat quote by Wittgenstein: One can imagine an animal angry, fearful, sad, joyful, startled. But hopeful?...
2023-10-31

All is Center: CS Lewis’ vision of the Great Dance

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Frequently I have discussions with people who want to de-center humanity from the most important place in the universe, in order to help us ...
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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2023-08-18

On Miracles that seem “trivial”

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Every now and then we come across stories of religiously significant events that do not seem to be adequately explained by natural laws, but...
2022-06-06

Why you matter

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Life can be difficult, and we all have days when we wonder who we are, why we are here, and if any of this matters. And when I have days lik...
2022-06-02

Where Freedom and Determinism Meet

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It was God who created humankind in the beginning, and he left them in the power of their own free choice. If you choose, you can keep the c...
2022-05-28

De Chardin on the necessity of evil in a finite creation

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For three decades I have actively pondered and written on the problem of evil and sin . We could sum it up this way: If God is so good, how ...
2021-04-16

A Prayer for Uncertainty

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A poem and a prayer for those facing an uncertain future and trying to find the way forward. Let us pray:
2021-04-03

Did Christ have to die on the Cross?

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On Holy Saturday I often do a lot of thinking about the meaning of the Cross and Death of Christ. I've written before about how I explai...
2018-10-11

Bart Ehrman, Theodicy, and Leaving Evangelicalism

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Recently I posted a chart about various models of dealing with "Theodicy " (the problem of how evil and God can co-exist in the...
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...
2017-12-06

On Physics, Possibility, and Resurrection

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Recently I was in a discussion about the Resurrection of Christ in which someone posted that "classical theism allows for the possib...
2015-11-14

What good does it do to #prayforparis?

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Tonight, as the media was broadcasting the terrible news of today's terror attacks in Paris, one of my students emailed me this quest...
2014-01-04

The Most Common Objection to Prayer

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There are several objections to prayer. I read them all the time on blogs, websites, and comments sections. I hear them from students and...
2013-12-22

Miracles and Minds, Science Fiction and Scientific Probability

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Dr. Manhattan ponders the possibility of miracles by reading this absurdly long essay. For years I have wanted to deal with one of the g...
2013-10-09

God of the Gaps or God as Singularity?

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Many skeptics (and thoughtful Christians) find problems with the model of God as a "God of the Gaps". By this, they mean a God...
2013-08-16

What does prayer do?

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This is a theological meditation on something that I have been pondering for a while now: How can we conceive of prayer working if we ope...
2013-04-03

On Miracles, Hubris, and Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law

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Today in chapel I preached on resurrection. And in speaking of the miracle of the resurrection, I invoked Arthur C. Clarke's Third L...
2009-06-20

Stop the Storm or Ride the Rapids?

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A Sermon by Nathan L. Bostian For Year B, Proper 7, based on Mark 4:35-41 When I read stories like today's Gospel reading- stories ...
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