Sentences with phrase «classical theism found»

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Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

For this new theism, the significance of Jesus is found first in his providing the classical instance of what is always and everywhere operative, although it is working against serious obstacles that yet can not defeat the cosmic thrust toward loving and sharing.

For him, classical theism, as found in the scholastics and in modern philosophy down to Kant, was neither biblical nor intelligently modern.

I am encouraged by his acceptance of a substantial part of my criticism of classical theism as found in Aquinas; however, he sides with Aquinas and against me on some issues.

«9 We now realize that whatever is real and important must somehow include the present world of becoming which we most certainly know and affirm; and this means that we find the classical form of Christian theism simply incredible.

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.

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.