Sentences with phrase «rejected classical theism»

Like the other two, and with equal definiteness and eloquence, he rejected classical theism (without so naming it) 3 because of its failure to protect freedom in our relation to God.

Instead of rejecting every idea of an active and acting God when she rejects classical theism, Sölle might profit from approaching empirically the working of grace as Wieman did.

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Alston quotes a passage from Man's Vision of God which he takes to imply that if one rejects any of the propositions of classical theism one must reject them all, since they are «inseparable aspects of one idea.»

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.

It may sound like a strange idea, yet it resonates with a great many theologians who reject «classical theism,» the broadly Platonist....