tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8713828026569585727..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Christian challenge of modernity - not yet facedBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57429995908167222722018-02-13T05:18:27.149+00:002018-02-13T05:18:27.149+00:00@Nigel
I'm afraid I can't explain what I ...@Nigel<br /><br />I'm afraid I can't explain what I mean any better than I do in the blog posts - where I make repeated attempts at the same thing. Indeed, I am mostly explaining things to myself, since nobody else is as interested in these matters as myself (here-and-now). <br /><br />It certainly isn't process philosophy!<br /><br />In general, Christian metaphysics has been a two milennial disaster! - evasive/ mystical where it need to be clear - and dogmatic where it makes the least sense - eg in statements concerning the nature and relations of the Trinity. <br /><br />I would say that most Christians are blitheley unaware of the hopelessly unconvincing nature of the broadly-Athanasian Trinity 'mantra' as a 'solution' to a genuine problem. I believe that the rise of Islam was a direct consequence of this failure. <br /><br />I was not a Christian until about ten years ago, but have been on the fringes all my life. I mostly know Christian theology from outside. Mostly, it looks like an exercise in laboriously missing the point. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-17115965618350871792018-02-13T01:09:32.351+00:002018-02-13T01:09:32.351+00:00traditionalist Christianity tries to do Good... bu...<i>traditionalist Christianity tries to do Good... but is crippled and poisoned by a kind of fundamental and chronic metaphysical dishonesty.</i><br /><br />I read your other post referenced on this, it sounds like you reject Platonic formalism in favor of something like process philosophy. But isn't the problem of universals an open question still in philosophy? I mean couldn't it still be "true" that in fact God is the omnipotent highest Good, Beauty and Truth? <br /><br />Or is your criticism of traditional Christian metaphysics, more along the lines of the notion that it, yes it can't exactly be disproven, but i can only answer so many important human/theological questions with "well its just a mystery so just believe what I say and don't worry your pretty little head"?Nigel Worthingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909877167718415332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-3385134182421165082018-02-11T16:25:13.673+00:002018-02-11T16:25:13.673+00:00The various sects mistake means for ends and endow...The various sects mistake means for ends and endow these with the stature of Him who gave them and for which they are meant as tools to come to know actual Truth. Faith, Hope, Love, Truth, Beauty and all righteousness are a Person. Know Him and know all. Every true saint and prophet have declared this. But the sects tend to fall into the hands of the Pharisees who value legalism and form above all else and are willing to persecute, torture and kill any who dare dispute this. These interfaith conflicts have done more to discredit true religion than any other factor. Desert Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985993848922650013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-84975764941940604862018-02-11T15:29:55.332+00:002018-02-11T15:29:55.332+00:00Thanks for saying so well what I have suspected wi...Thanks for saying so well what I have suspected without being able to pin down. A True Tour de Force!!!Anon 735https://www.blogger.com/profile/09970930236509892154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61914834853758420212018-02-11T14:32:19.673+00:002018-02-11T14:32:19.673+00:00I agree there was a missed opportunity in modernit...I agree there was a missed opportunity in modernity and quite counter intuitively the book that put me on to the idea that i might be able to 'do' what I 'needed to' was Joyce's Ulysses. Quite simply it drove home the point that the heroic age was not just back in the days of Homer, but also in Dublin in 1904 and therefore down to me this day and every day. So the world is full of Cyclops, and Sirens, Circe and adverse winds. What else is new? Theosis is possible through Grace and that is the miracle. lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.com