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Jan 30, 2018 · What is contained in the Westminster Confession and other universally agreed upon statements of faith (e.g., The Apostles' Creed) is not a paradox but a defense of a presupposition; namely, the Bible is God's Word, and its authority derives ultimately from God.
Apr 1, 2015 · The examined explanations rely on a number of ideas, for example, that faith is not a work because faith is a gift of God, or because faith is non-voluntary, or because faith is not a condition of justification, or because faith does not merit justification, or because faith is union with Christ.
- Mats Wahlberg
- 2015
Anderson thus extends Plantinga's theory further, in the fifth and sixth chapters, to cover how Christian beliefs may, if Christianity is true, be warranted, both for sophisticates and for ordinary believers.
Jun 23, 2010 · Questions about faith have inspired centuries of philosophical and theological reflection, particularly, though by no means exclusively, as faith is understood within the Christian branch of the Abrahamic religions. What is faith?
Dec 22, 2009 · Anderson claims that a real paradox ‘posits a genuinely contradictory state of affairs’ (p. 261). His view seems to be that the doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation are only apparent paradoxes because they are only contradictory at the level of language and not at the level of the divine reality which is their source.
- Victoria S. Harrison
- 2010
In this paper, I argue that Johannes definition as faith as paradoxical, as belief in the possibility of the impossible, cannot be maintained except at the level of abstraction and cannot be performed by an agent in the world.
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Feb 25, 2021 · Anderson labels these types of situations as Merely Apparent Contradictions Resulting from Unarticulated Equivocation (MACRUE). (Ibid: 222). As it relates to theological inquiry, according to Anderson, “all genuinely paradoxical Christian doctrines should be” understood as MACRUE.
