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John Calvin's Aristotelean Cosmology
Many of John Calvin’s references to Aristotelean cosmology occur during his later years, representing his mature theology. Christopher Kaiser has shown that Calvin viewed the universe through th… more →
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John Calvin's Aristotelean Cosmology
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wrote 2 months ago: Many of John Calvin’s references to Aristotelean cosmology occur during his later years, repre … more →
Lambert Daneau and 'Natural Philosophy,' A Pagan Phrase?
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wrote 2 months ago: Lambert Daneau (1530-1595) is not a well-known man, yet he was very influential in the Genevan Acad … more →
David Pareus de Creatione ex Nihilo
wrote 3 months ago: David Pareus, German theologian of the 17th century, defined creation as did the scholastics before … more →
The Virtue of Friendship as the Basis of Society
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wrote 4 months ago: According to Melanchthon, man does not really need to create a reason for friendship. It is the fulf … more →
Aristotle's Method as Promethean Fire: Melanchthon's Opinion
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wrote 6 months ago: The old view that the Renaissance humanists exchanged Aristotle for Plato in toto has been discredit … more →
Calvin on Original Justice as Donum Pulcherrum
wrote 6 months ago: I ran across John Calvin’s tract against the German Interim and discovered a more Medieval exp … more →
Reformed Robotics
wrote 7 months ago: Some people within the Reformed world feel that the only way to validate faith is to denigrate reaso … more →
Voluntarism, Skepticism, and the Unveiling of Nature
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wrote 8 months ago: Pierre Hadot distinguishes between what he calls a Promethean and Orphic concept of nature in the hi … more →
John Calvin on Man's Natural Desire to Know
wrote 9 months ago: Calvin says, as Aristotle and numerous others before him, that all men have a natural desire to know … more →
The Meaning of Aristotle's τἀγαθόν: The Benefit of a Humanist Ethos
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wrote 9 months ago: During the time of the Renaissance there was a debate between humanist moral theologians and those w … more →
God's Work In Creatures is Quasi-Natural
wrote 9 months ago: Augustine’s words quoted in the gloss mean, not that God is unable to do otherwise than nature does, … more →
The Natural Desire for the Vision of God and the Convergence of the Sciences
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wrote 9 months ago: After reading de Lubac and some of his critics I still think the best interpretation of Thomas … more →
Grace/Nature: A Problem for Supralapsarians
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."
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
wrote 1 year ago: As he continued crossing ridges and gullies he was struck with their extreme steepness; but somehow … more →
Anselm's Faith Seeking Understanding
wrote 1 year ago: Many Reformed folks have been taught that the ontological proof for God’s existence is complet … more →
