Grok Affirms Classical Theism
Full disclosure: I not unusually these days run my thoughts past Grok to see if he can find any holes therein. Not the insights that are delivered to me during Mass, e.g., or at prayer; o no, not them....
View ArticleChristian, Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot Over the Jews
Some people believe the Bible portrays Jews (called Israelites in the Old Testament) as a people favored by God. A herrenvolk, as it were. Some non-Jewish Christians believe that Christianity assigns...
View ArticleCreatio ex Nihilo from Gödelian Incompleteness
From my hike with the dogs in the woods the other day, another Lucasian argument from Gödelian Incompleteness. Creatio ex nihilo is entailed by Gödelian Incompleteness. The entire actual past of the...
View ArticleCreaturely Freedom from Gödelian Incompleteness
JR Lucas showed many years ago (in The Freedom of the Will) that Gödelian Incompleteness logically forestalls any Theory of Everything [TOE] that such finite intellects as ours might venture to propose...
View ArticleA Friendly Response to My Friend Francis Berger re Creaturely Freedom
Few of my online interlocutors have so earnestly engaged with my archeaotraditional theological and metaphysical arguments as our friend Francis Berger. A.morphous, my good old dude, you had better up...
View ArticlePeter West re Robert Baird re Ross Douthat’s Believe: Why Everyone Should Be...
We are pleased to present a guest post by Peter West, who has been commenting and sometimes posting here for many years (sometimes under his initials, PBW). Peter will be joining us henceforth as a...
View ArticleDivine Omnipotence is Logically Constrained by Creaturely Freedom
Most worries about divine omnipotence in the popular philosophical discourse mistake it. They take it to be far more potent than in fact it can possibly be. In fact, divine omnipotence is pretty...
View ArticleAngelology (& Demonology): Steps to a Working Hypothesis: III
This third installment in the series is mostly about aeviternity, the middle ground between eternity and time that is peopled with the celestial intelligences – the aeviternals. Every form as first...
View ArticleThe Argument from Definiteness
I proposed the other day an Argument from Order, that was – uncharacteristically, for me – succinct enough that I can reiterate the whole thing here as preamble, without much injury to readers: On...
View ArticleThe Argument from Our Feeling of the Injustice of Our Discomfitures
Life is painful. This seems to us profoundly unfair. How could a perfectly good and omnipotent God have allowed all these manifest horrors we have suffered to have happened? We did not after all ask to...
View ArticleTheology as Way to Humility, & So to Proper Worship; So, to Salvation
When you are doing theology, you soon see that all you have ever yet seen, or then in virtue thereof might see, cannot sufficiently enlighten your way to what, by a vision now darkling, through a glass...
View ArticleWhether There Is Anything to Christianity, at All
The conversations here lately about catechesis into tradition have captured my attention. Is catechesis (always of course deficient, under the orbit of the moon) beneficently efficacious, or not? I...
View ArticleNota Bene, &…
The recent post of our friend Malcolm Pollack, to which we just referred, and in which he asked Claude AI to limn 10 steps the devil would take to undermine human civilization, were he real, is … well,...
View ArticleThe Argument from Order
On atheism, Democritean atomism (or something like it) is simply true, and there is no real order; rather, there are only atoms colliding – or not – chaotically in the void. But there is real order;...
View ArticleAnselm & Job
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither...
View ArticleO for a True High King – or Queen
What impressed most who saw [the Coronation of QE II] was the fact that the Queen herself appeared to be quite overwhelmed by the sacramental side of it. Hence, in the spectators, a feeling of (one...
View ArticleSome Staggering Entailments of the Anselmian Definition
The Anselmian Definition [AD] of God, discovered and promulgated by Saint Anselm of Canterbury, is id quo maius cogitari nequit – that than which no greater can be conceived. It is the foundation of...
View ArticleAngelology (& Demonology): Steps to a Working Hypothesis: II
Continued from the prior installment in this series: Aeviternals are the first, original, palmary, archetypal concrete instantiations of the Platonic Forms, that had their origin and creative source in...
View ArticleAngelology (& Demonology): Steps to a Working Hypothesis: I
When I was growing up in the tail end of the last century, everyone knew and taught their kids that there was no such thing as demons. Or ghosts, or angels, or … God. That modernist consensus narrative...
View ArticleI Am a Romantic Christian … Traditional Orthodox Nicene Reactionary
The self styled Romantic Christians I have so far read lay great, proper emphasis on the inescapable, insuperable authority of personal, intuitive discernment of the intellect (which, it is trivial to...
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