Sentences with phrase «classical theism also»

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This traditional Western conception of deity — this classical theism — also teaches that God exists from the divine and of the divine; aseity is taken to be the root attribute of the divine.

, my critic, with a certain partial consistency, also holds (with classical theism) that God does not necessarily create at all and might have existed solus.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

Yes, you'll also find some «classical theism» in the volume» Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Aquinas» but Ed is correct in that it fills only very few pages.

It provided also the starting point for the long theological tradition of classical monopolar theism in the West, which held that divine perfection was exclusively the perfection of eternal and immutable being.

Two traits of classical theism were that it either (like Stoicism and Spinozism) clearly and consistently denied human freedom (in the straightforward sense of actions being not wholly determined by their causal conditions) or else ambiguously or contradictorily affirmed and denied causal determinism — truly classically in Aquinas's statement that God strictly causes our actions but in such fashion that we were also free to act otherwise.