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A Thoroughly Trinitarian Metaphysic

Beginning with reason, logic, and reality, we start far from home. Then, along the way, we follow reason as truth-finder as she [1] avoids reductions to absurdity and [2] satisfies her own [...]

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Consciousness In Unity, Irreducibility, Indivisibility, And In Being

To begin, the following is an excerpt out of David Bentley Hart’s “The Experience of God”. Begin Excerpt: In the mechanical view of nature, the physical realm is devoid of simple unities, at [...]

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Define Faith

Eight/8 Examples Of Correcting Fallacious Definitions Of Faith: A key factor is the simple fact that one must not invent definitions of another’s terms. In a thread/post at www.STR.org  in [...]

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The Illusionist ~ On Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back ~The Evolution of Minds ~ By David Bentley Hart

The following is the essay titled “The Illusionist ~ On Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds” which is Chapter 10 out of the book Theological Territories: A [...]

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The Unity Of Mind Is The Unity Of Being Even As The Irreducibility Of Mind Is The Irreducibility Of Being – by David Bentley Hart

A unified field of apprehending joins the unity of consciousness as we navigate Third Person descriptions and First-Person experiences. The following is (in full) a Copy/Paste from the book [...]

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Creation Ex Nihilo, The Principle of Proportionate Causality, Seamelessness In Being From Pure Act To The Contingent And From I AM to Imago Dei

Mind Body Interaction Problem? What Interaction Problem? There cannot be any such “problem” given Being’s Superseding Ontic Over Both Material and Non-Being. Being’s Ontic Weight supersedes the [...]

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RACE, RACISM, AND ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

Resources from many and diverse points of view are included here with the goal of avoiding a monolithic/monochromatic lens by providing a wide array of voices/vantagepoints. Updated periodically [...]

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Deficiency Of Being, Old Testament Violence, The Metaphysic of Privation, And Christ Crucified

Part 1 of 5 Old Testament violence brings out several peculiar lines in the proverbial sand.  Some Christians ((and most narratives of Non-Theistic Critics)) construct a metaphysic as if God [...]

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Old Testament Slavery: A Brief Look at the Jewish Law of Manumission by David Cobin

Old Testament Slavery A Brief Look at the Jewish Law of Manumission —By David M. Cobin PDF: a-brief-look-at-the-jewish-law-of-manumission-by-david-m-cobin Source: [...]

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Slavery In The Christian Metanarrative Is Defined As A Swath Of Privations Many Pains Therefore The Christian Metanarrative Cannot Have A Pro Slavery Verse Much Less A Pro Slavery Any Thing

Christianity and Slavery: Does It Mean Jesus Isn’t Good After All? https://www.thinkingchristian.net/posts/2020/08/christianity-and-slavery-does-it-mean-jesus-isnt-good-after-all/ How Good Was [...]