Sentences with phrase «classical theism places»

Just this, however, enables us to understand the major stumbling - block which classical theism places in the way of many of our contemporaries.

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Hartshorne attributes this consistent violation of the principle of dual transcendence to the fact that classical theism has placed too much faith in Greek philosophy, and to a Western prejudice according to which absolute independence along with the power to the cause of events is regarded as a superior attribute while relativity and the capacity to be an effect is mistakenly regarded as an inferior attribute.»

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.

All this is placed in contrast to classical theism, which «reduces the creatures... to nothings.