Three Theological Mistakes: How to Correct Enlightenment Assumptions about God, Miracles, and Free Will - Hardcover

Machuga, Ric

 
9781498222464: Three Theological Mistakes: How to Correct Enlightenment Assumptions about God, Miracles, and Free Will
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1498222463 ISBN 13: 9781498222464
Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

- Is the existence of God a matter of faith or knowledge? - Does God sometimes act miraculously or are there physical causes for everything? - Is morality absolute or relative? - Are humans truly free or does God's sovereignty determine everything? - When bad things happen, is God the cause or are they the fault of humans? Too frequently Christians answer these questions with a Yes to one side and a No to the other side. Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth answer Yes to both. Following their model, Machuga defends a "third way" which transcends the Enlightenment dichotomies of fideism vs. rationalism, supernaturalism vs. naturalism, relativism vs. absolutism, free will vs. predestination, and God's justice vs. his mercy. Machuga begins by showing how these false dichotomies grew out of the Enlightenment assumptions of mechanism, universal quantification, and mono-causation. He then corrects these demonstrably dubious assumptions by articulating a theory of dual-causation. The result is a thoroughly biblical understanding of God, miracles, and free will that can withstand the contemporary criticisms of both science and philosophy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ric Machuga has taught philosophy and in the Honor Program at Butte College for thirty-five years. He is the author of In Defense of the Soul (2002), Life, the Universe, and Everything (2011), and numerous pieces for Books & Culture.

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Verlag
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1498222463
ISBN 13 
9781498222464
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294
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