Sentences with phrase «classical theism sees»

Classical theism sees all true spiritual pilgrimage as a purely interior movement.

Classical theism sees only a single problem here, the question of God's transcendence and immanence, for which a twofold solution is quite adequate.

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This long discussion of so - called classical theism in its Christian version will have served its purpose if it helps us to understand the reason for the violent antitheistic movements of recent times and to see why some serious thinkers have even said that God is dead.

But it is then very difficult to see why God would want us to use coercive power or how the classical God of free will theism can be criticized for not coercing.

In fact, it seems fair to say that the most common criticism process theists level against the God of classical free will theism is the claim that if such a being really existed and were wholly good, we should expect to see displays of divine coercive power more often.

By this I mean that we already have before us a way of conceiving the reality of God, in comparison with which the theism of the classical tradition can be seen to be but a first and rather rough approximation.

Hick stands above the theological crowd in seeing that this is a serious modem challenge to classical theism and in systematically attempting to justify God's lack of clearer revelation.

We may speak by analogy with Hartshorne's «neoclassical theism» of Whitehead's neoclassical empiricism» precisely because it is a self - conscious revision of the classical tradition on the one hand and can be seen to consist in an analysis of the formally possible doctrines regarding the character and content of experience on the other.

Classical theism in effect sees a single problem: it is as true to say that God transcends the world, as that God is immanent in the world.

(See the Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free - Will Theism by William Hasker; Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker's Claim for Parity; «Bitten to Death by Ducks»: A Reply to Griffin; On Hasker's Defense of his Parity Claim by David Ray Griffin (see www.religion-online.orSee the Problem of Evil in Process Theism and Classical Free - Will Theism by William Hasker; Traditional Free Will Theodicy and Process Theodicy: Hasker's Claim for Parity; «Bitten to Death by Ducks»: A Reply to Griffin; On Hasker's Defense of his Parity Claim by David Ray Griffin (see www.religion-online.orsee www.religion-online.org.)

With respect to the question of divine power, as we saw in the last chapter, classical theism came to accept the model of efficient causation.

It is of great interest to see how classical theism is affected by modern physics.