Sentences with phrase «classical theism came»

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.

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So they transferred the concept of infinity from matter to the divine, which laid the foundation for most of the philosophical moves that have come to be associated with classical theism.

(And yes, this is related to my earlier point about how classical theism overlooked God's knowledge of what «might and might not» come to pass).

Classical theism, construing omnipotence in terms of coercive power, provides a philosophical guarantee that that day will in fact come to pass, or argues that it is already taking place.

Now I come close to the theme of this article: one writer, and I have found no other, in the early Middle Ages attacked classical theism head - on precisely on its two most vulnerable points — its affirmation of, or failure definitely to reject, unqualified theological determinism, and its commitment to endless posthumous careers for human persons, making them in that respect rivals to God.