The Holy Trinity: A Simple Explanation for Children
Son: Dad? How can God be three in one and one in three? That seems crazy. Father: Criminy, son. Can’t you ask me an easier question, like how an electron can be a particle and a wave at the same time?...
View ArticleThe Medium Actually Is the Message
Meaning is not epiphenomenal to anything. It is not just some superfluity added to physical causation, or riding it, like scum on the surface of a river. By the same token, physical causation is not...
View ArticleThe Ontological Arguments
Once and Future Traditionalist blogger and orthospherean Casey Ann, now on hiatus from her doughty online efforts so that she can concentrate on college, recently commented on a post from 2013 in which...
View ArticleThe Proper Terminus of Any Science
Explanations, and the understandings they mediate, must all terminate (at least in principle) upon *some singularity or other* if they are to hang together – if they are to succeed as explanations by...
View ArticleOrthodox Panentheism
Panentheism is the notion that everything is in God. It defines itself in contradiction to pantheism. Nevertheless it is a controversial idea, not least because to some it rather smells of pantheism....
View ArticleThe Temptation to Improper Reduction
One of the things I have noticed over the short course of my career as a blogger, and before that as a commenter on blogs, is that I often find myself responding to interlocutors with statements of the...
View ArticleShould the West Consider Christ’s Victory?
We are pleased to offer another guest post by blogger Mark Citadel. ______________________________ In Gustav Aulén’s 1931 book Christ the Victor, he writes, “the work of Christ is first and foremost a...
View ArticleCur Deus Homo & Other Roman Problems: Some Quiddities
The valuable EH Looney – an orthospherean through and through, let it be noted, and so our ally and friend (witly or not), whose site I visit daily – has in a recent short post subtly erred, in three...
View ArticleThe Great Sortition
I argued in a recent post that, because of its militant, totalitarian presumptions, Islam must sooner or later be destroyed if any other cult – including the cult of the Living God, YHWH our Lord Jesus...
View ArticleOckham’s Razor, the Gordian Knot & the Thomist Marlinspike
Reality is a knotty problem. It is terrifically difficult to unsnarl it, so that we understand it. It won’t do to cut through it, as (according to the most famous version of the legend) Alexander did...
View ArticleA Clarification by Way of Elaboration of Anselm’s Ontological Argument
Anselm’s Argument presupposes that God is, as (almost) all men have always thought him to be, that than which no greater can be conceived – the Ultimate Being, along all dimensions of perfection,...
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