3 posts tagged “theology”

These are a couple of articles I found thanks to Victor Reppert at Dangerous Idea.  I haven't read them yet as what little focus I have is directed elsewhere this week, however, I am eager to have the time to sit down and read them thoughtfully.

Beauty, Providence and the Biophilia Hypothesis (aka Argument from Beauty) by Mark Wynn (75k pdf)
On the Truth of Beauty by Sonia Sikka (120k pdf)

These along with several other promising links are posted at the Calvin College Resource Library.

Posting here as a reminder to myself to read.

From Panenthiesm.net:

Theology is ordinarily understood as the study of God and the relationship of God to the world, usually in the context of a specific theological system and a related body of theological opinion. It is considered to embrace the investigation of spirit, the human soul, teleology and divine qualities such as omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence.

Traditionally, its preferred methods of inquiry have been rational rather than empirical, and have thus relied on a combination of faith and logic rather than observation. Logical theology shifts theological inquiry in the direction of logic and mathematics, seeking to reposition it within the domain of modern analytical tools including model theory, the theory of formalized systems, and the logical theory of reality.

Whereas standard theology takes the existence of God as axiomatic and then attempts, often naively, to characterize the relationship between its assumed definition and a more or less concrete model of reality, logical theology explores a logical formulation of ultimate reality for any divine properties that might naturally reveal themselves; given that divine law (if it exists) would necessarily incorporate the laws of logic and mathematics on a basic level, it seeks evidence of divinity in the context of a reality-theoretic extension of logic, the CTMU. The implied convergence of theology, mathematics and science yields a reality-based theological framework with the strength and capacity to support realistic solutions to various real-world problems.

I was surfing the web for info on panentheism when I came across this site and the term logical theology jumped out at me.  I'm not the least bit sure what any of this means but the term resonates with me.  Maybe some of you might be interested as well.  I'm voxing it for future reference and pondering.

Nod to Martin @ Christianity in the Raw for bringing these books to my attention.  See his related commentary here.

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

Robert Louis Wilken

Learning Theology With the Church Fathers

Christopher A. Hall