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Summary What is classical theism? What is sacred scripture? Is it possible to interpret Scripture without a particular metaphysics or particular philosophical assumptions? Is the God described in the Bible compatible with the classical...
Summary What is the doctrine of Divine Simplicity? What are Dr. Gavin Ortlund’s thoughts on his recent exchange with Dr. Ryan Mullins on the topic? Is God really related to creatures or not? Why...
Summary Why bother to make technical distinctions in how we speak about God? How does St. Thomas Aquinas categorize the ways of speaking about God? Is it true that according to Aquinas, God is...
Summary Is atheism a simpler theory than theism? What are the strongest arguments for God’s existence? Is apologetics a hopeless enterprise because motivated reasoning and confirmation bias are inherently involved? Where does the Incarnation...
Summary What is the doctrine of divine simplicity? How does it relate to reality having an ultimate explanation? Is it relevant for revealed theology? What about the intentional collapse objection? Dr. Christopher Tomaszewski joins...
Summary What are the most important theological themes of the Pentateuch? Does the Pentateuch teach philosophical monotheism or rather some form of henotheism? Who wrote the Pentateuch? What are the most important lines of...
Summary What is the problem of divine hiddenness? Is God a bad parent who doesn’t show his presence to his children? How can Christian theists respond to skeptics who press arguments from hiddenness? Dr. Gavin...
Summary What is theology? How did the theological methods of Karl Barth and Fr. Karl Rahner differ from the scholastics and neo-scholastics? What is a mystery and what is its role in theology? Can...
Summary What does Lumen Gentium 8 teach about the nature of the Church? Does its teaching contradict the traditional view that Christ’s Church is identical to the Catholic Church? How ought we to understand...
Summary What is philosophy? How should we subdivide it? What is meant by the “perennial tradition”? How do Catholic philosophers avoid the “is-ought gap” problem in ethics? Dr. Jim Jacobs joins us to discuss...
