Sentences with phrase «consider alternative conceptions»

Not exact matches

Facts will never render decisions between ill - conceived alternatives; and the meaning of such terms as omnipotence or goodness depends in second - type theism upon a number of conceptions which have not been clearly considered in the classic discussions (such as the marvelous one in Hume's Dialogues) of the relations of such terms to the facts of evil.

Only in the last few decades has a genuinely alternative type of theology been at all widely considered — so unobtrusively, however, that many opponents of theism, even some of the most distinguished, are still fighting the older conception exclusively, convinced that if they can dispose of it the theological question will be settled.

Thus I allow that the full Hartshornean conception is an important alternative that must be seriously considered by contemporary theology, even though it is not my preferred alternative.