Sentences with phrase «though classical theism»

For Brightman, «the expansion of God into an omnipotent being» restricted God's benevolence, even though classical theism asserted both «with equal assurance.»

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Though Hartshorne has never given a great deal of attention in his writings to concrete religious phenomena, he has always been concerned about the religious significance of his work, He advocates the neoclassical conception of God partly because he believes it is more in keeping with religious experience than classical formulations of either theism or pantheism.

So, he claims, though the logical types objection is very powerful (and is devastating for classical theism), it is met by his di - polar concept of God.

Hartshorne will have nothing to do with this abstractly negative God, and it is one of the achievements of his philosophy continually to have pointed out the implications of classical theism (even though, of course, classical theists would wish to resist the drawing of some of them).

This dimension of God's being, however, though hinted at in tentative probings in the Old Testament literature, 2 was indignantly suppressed in classical theism by Greek ideals of perfection, which dictated absolute impassability to God.