Sentences with phrase «classical theism while»

The distinction allows Hartshorne to preserve the best insights of classical theism while remedying its greatest oversights.

Not exact matches

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.»

Hartshorne's contention is that classical forms of both theism and pantheism violate this «law,» since they characteristically attribute one side of the basic polarities to God while wholly denying him the contrasting term.

Whereas classical theism had described God as wholly other than the world and classical pantheism had identified God and the world, in Hartshorne's view God includes the world while transcending it.

I portrayed them, correctly I think, as remaining obsessed — albeit negatively — with the classical god of metaphysical theism, while I was talking about Someone Else, the mysterious and elusive Other of the prophets and Jesus, who — like Jacques Brel — was very much alive although living in unexpected quarters.

While it may handle the problem of evil, does not process theism's critique of classical omnipotence open up a Pandora's box of its own?