God’s Nature Qualifies Omnipotence
As part of a book I’m writing called The Death of Omnipotence …and Birth of Amipotence, I’m devoting a whole chapter to the qualifications scholars make to omnipotence. The chapter is called “Death by a Thousand Qualifications.” As the title of the chapter suggests, I note thousands of qualifications necessary to make any sense of […]
The Theo-Logic of Love (and why Aquinas and Anselm are wrong)
In contrast to Aquinas and Anselm, I think God’s love involves more than outgoing benevolence. God’s love also involves incoming empathy, receiving, and sometimes suffering.
Explaining Love to an Alien
Suppose an alien from Planet X leaned over the counter at Starbucks and asked, “What is this ‘love’ I hear spoken of on your planet?”
The Unsatisfactory Mystery of Divine Action
I just finished a wonderfully accessible and clear book on God’s activity in the world. It was written from an advocate of Thomas Aquinas’s theology, and it addresses recent scientific theory and scholarship. I’ll be recommending that serious scholars of science and theology read this book… even though I strongly disagree with its proposals!