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The Natural Desire for the Vision of God and the Convergence of the Sciences
After reading de Lubac and some of his critics I still think the best interpretation of Thomas’s “natural desire” for the beatific vision comes from Frederick Copleston. The issue i… more →
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The Natural Desire for the Vision of God and the Convergence of the Sciences
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Eric Parker wrote 8 months ago: After reading de Lubac and some of his critics I still think the best interpretation of Thomas … more →
Plotinus and C.S. Lewis on "Looking Along"
Eric Parker wrote 9 months ago: C.S. Lewis explained the anthropomorphism of the ancients in terms of psychology. How did they think … more →
The Telos of the City of Man: The Effects of Sin on Natural Law
Eric Parker wrote 11 months ago: Now there was need for man to receive a precept about loving God and his neighbor, because in thus … more →
Grace/Nature: A Problem for Supralapsarians
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Reinhold Niebuhr accused Thomas Aquinas of radically separating nature and grace so that the former … more →
"The distinction between natural and supernatural, in fact, broke down."
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Perelandra We tend to think about non-human intelligences in two distinct categories which we label … more →
Nature Reaches to the Heavens
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: As he continued crossing ridges and gullies he was struck with their extreme steepness; but somehow … more →
C.S. Lewis Puts Reason 'Out There'
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: In so far as thought is merely human, merely a characteristic of one particular biological species, … more →
An Apparent Apologetic Method in Aquinas: A Critique of Certain Van Tilianisms
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Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Those theologians who consider themselves to be within the theological lineage of Cornelius Van Til … more →
The Next Few Weeks
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Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: I’ll be in Florida all of next week, so I will probably not be posting anything. Destin, FL Ho … more →
Autonomy
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Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: I don’t think it is autonomous rationalism to begin one’s apologetics with theological p … more →
Gregory of Nyssa on Universals
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: According to F. Copleston the Greek Fathers were generally influenced by Platonism and neo-Platonic … more →
Borrowed Truth
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: As I read it is becoming more clear to me that folks like Van Til, Schaeffer, and Bahnsen did not in … more →
For Plato the Absolute Is "Separate"
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Contrary to what many, including myself, have been taught Frederick Copleston argues that Plato did … more →
Something New Every Day: Did Aristotle Misrepresent Plato?
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: … the essence of Plato’s doctrine of Forms or Ideas is simply this: that the universal … more →
de Lubac on Communion
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Being in communion with someone means to receive the body of the Lord with them. Being united with t … more →
The Errors of Aulen's Christus Victor Model
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Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: *The following is the conclusion to a review I did of Gustaf Aulen’s Christus Victor. Therefor … more →
An Integration of Plato and Aristotle in Aquinas
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: According to the late Frederick Copleston one should not dispense of the philosophy of Plato in favo … more →
Medieval Reform and Modern Utopia
Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: The Medieval understanding of “Reformation” carried eschatological connotations. Orders … more →
The Necessity of Penal Substitution
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Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: Gerald O’Collins and many other modern scholars hate the idea of Christ’s death as Penal … more →
