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Is it possible to know God and his attributes if, by definition, God is infinite ad perfect? Traditionally there have been two ways employed to obtain knowledge of God, the way of affirmation (the kataphatic way) and the way of negation (the apophatic way).
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A doctrine of God that attempts to combine the strenghts of classical theism with those of classical pantheism. The term is particularly associated with the work of Charles Hartshorne (Elwell, 885).
Morris examines various methods for determining the best definition of God. 1. Divine Revelation: We might think that we can look to all of the worlds religious texts in order to determine what God is/what God is like. Problem: However, the religious texts of the world radically differ with respect to their descriptions of what God is like.
God is telling us in Scripture who He is; as the Psalmist says, “As is Thy name, O God [Elohim], so is Thy praise to the ends of the earth” (Ps. 48: 10). It is important to understand that only God can name himself.
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Nov 3, 2011 · We can argue indefinitely and disagree eternally about what qualities God has, unless at least we can agree on a primary definition of the subject — what we mean by God in the first place.
There are many arguments for and against the existence of God, and this book is not intended to be a compendium of them. Rather it offers a critical assessment of what are, beyond dispute, six of the most important arguments for God within the Western theological tradition, and couples that analysis
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Aquinas on the Nominal Definition of 'God' through an Effect. Within the commentary tradition, however, Aquinas is the first to reflect in detail on the contents of a nominal definition in an existential proof and to apply this reflection to the case of God.