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Posted onNovember 10, 2024November 10, 2024Uncategorized

On Mark 12:44

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Tonight’s reading at church told of a woman from 2 thousand years ago who gave all she had to her Lord’s temple at the time.…

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Posted onNovember 3, 2024November 3, 2024Philosophy

Magneto as Givenness

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A Theological Exploration through Magneto and Divine Relationality Abstract This paper explores the concept of basic action within a theological context, examining its parallels within…

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  • Beyond Classical Identity
    • Divine Simplicity and Triune Identity in Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa
    • Maximus the Confessor and Divine Freedom
    • Participatory Relational Logic and Origin-Tag Logic: A First-Order Framework for Identity
    • Pure Act & Identity as Accomplishment in Classical & Catholic Thought
    • Substance, Soul, and Identity: 
    • The Accomplishment of the Concept:
    • The Cappadocians in Conversation with a Pure-Act Simplicity:
    • The Logic of the Trinity
    • The Ontology of Origin: Identity as Act, Relation, and Concept
    • The Pro-Nicene Grammar of One God:
  • Blog posts and Documents I’ve Written
    • Divine Givenness AND DIVINE ATTRIBUTES IN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
    • Why the Bible is Trinitarian
  • Defending Divine Simplicity (Trinity)
    • “All in God is God” & Person Distinctions
    • “Could Have” Scenario & Sovereignty
    • “God’s Creative Act = God” & Contingency
    • 4 Questions around: If God always is what He does and can never be different, how could creating the world have been a real choice rather than something that had to happen?
    • 6 Principles to Classical Theism
    • Act = Essence vs. “Free Out of Nothing”
    • Actus Purus, Freedom, & No Latent Potential
    • Communicating Simplicity to Modern Believers
    • Denial of Simplicity is Atheism
    • DIVINE SIMPLICITY & THE INCARNATION
    • DIVINE SIMPLICITY & THE QUESTION OF “THREE WILLS”
    • Divine Simplicity and Relational Plenitude:
    • Divine Simplicity and the Trinity Explained
    • Does hyperintensionality challenge divine simplicity?
    • Does Simplicity Distance God?
    • Does the context precede the Persons?
    • Dumitru Stăniloae
    • Erich Przywara
    • Eriugena
    • Eriugena’s Theophanic Ontology:
    • Freedom, Intentionality, & Avoiding Collapse
    • Fully God in Each Person, No Division
    • God and Time
    • God and Time as Inscribed
    • God’s Necessary Being & Free Act
    • God’s relationship to time according to GTP 4.5 (deep research)
    • Hans Urs von Balthasar
    • Harmonizing Simplicity and Trinity by Analogy
    • Hebrews 1 & Divine Simplicity
    • How is divine simplicity realized?
    • How Is God Free to Create When He Has No Unactualized Potential?
    • How the Old and New Testaments Reveal a Triune God
    • Identity Transitivity & Trinitarian Distinction
    • Indiscernibility & Contingent Creation
    • Is Divine Simplicity Biblical?
    • Is Simplicity Biblical?
    • Jean-Luc Marion
    • Jiri Benovsky
    • JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER
    • Karl Rahner
    • key sources
    • Lateran Council 1215
    • Leibniz’s Law & God’s Creative Identity
    • Leibniz’s Law and Identity?
    • Marion, Benovsky, Aquinas
    • Metaphysics of Divine Simplicity: The Rational History
    • Modal Collapse & Catholic Teaching
    • Modal Collapse & Classical Simplicity Revisited
    • Necessary Existence vs. Contingent Creation
    • No Unactualized Potential vs. Omnipotence
    • One God, Relational Trinity, No Modalism
    • One Necessary Act & Absolute Sovereignty
    • One Simple Act, Many Willed Ends
    • Possible Universes & Divine Simplicity
    • Question #46: Can SSGO’s ‘relational horizon’ approach meet Thomistic concerns and tests? Specifically, can it preserve each Person as a full, subsisting divine ‘who’-identical with the one simple essence-without lapsing into either modalism (‘mere modes’ of one subject) or partialism (‘pieces’ of God)?
    • Questions on Modal Collapse
    • Reconciling Thomistic Freedom & No Potential
    • Relational Ontology & Dynamic Interaction
    • Robert Moses Dryer on the Coherence of Divine Simplicity
    • Romans 11:36 as a Declaration of Monarchia and Divine Simplicity
    • Scriptural Testimony: κοινωνία (koinōnía) and πλήρωμα (plērōma)
    • Seen God, Unseen Father, and Divine Simplicity
    • Shared Necessity & Free Creation
    • Simplicity & Divine Impassibility
    • Simplicity & the Problem of Evil
    • Simplicity and Divine Freedom?
    • Simplicity and the Image of God?
    • Simplicity vs. Scriptural Emotions
    • Simplicity vs. Trinity: Theological Responses
    • Sources Shaping SSGO Notes
    • The Cappadocian Achievement:
    • The Eucharist and Divine Simplicity?
    • The Monarchy of the Father and Divine Simplicity
    • The Monarchy of the Father as Relation
    • THE PREMIER CASE AGAINST UNITARIANISM:
    • Thomistic Simplicity & “Mere Property” Concern
    • Three Persons, One Essence, & Simplicity
    • Vladamir Lossky
    • What does it mean to count the Persons in a simple God?
    • What does it mean to say God has no parts?
    • What is SSGO and how does it defend divine simplicity?
    • What is Strong and Weak Simplicity?
    • What’s Robert Moses Dryer’s view and contribution to the subject on divine simplicity?
    • What’s the Computation for SSGO?
    • What’s a mode and vantage in divine simplicity?
  • Defending The Principle of Relationality: A Relational-First Paradigm for Divine Simplicity and Trinity
    • A Relational Model of the Trinity
    • Catholicism and Relationality
    • Divine freedom, divine simplicity, and creatio ex nihilo in light of God’s relation to reality
    • Gregory of Nazianzus
    • relation equals essence
      • essence equal relation in Lean
    • Relation-First Theology Mapped
    • Simplicity, Relation, Origin, and Gift in Theological Reflection
    • The Givenness of All: Theology as Fulfillment of Marion’s Phenomenology in a Relational-Gift Ontology
    • The Monarchy of the Father
    • Why Grace Comes to us through Scripture, Sacrament, and Church
  • Dictionary of Theology
    • A posteriori
    • A priori
    • Abstraction
    • Accident / accidental
    • Accidental add-on
    • Accidental form
    • Act / actuality
    • act-of-gift
    • Act-of-gift in Dryer’s Gift-Ontology
    • act-of-relation-as-gift
    • Action (operation)
    • Actuality in a Gift Ontology
    • ad extra/ad intra
    • analogia entis
    • Analogical Identity
    • analogy
    • Anaphora
    • Anologia Entis
    • appropriation
    • arche
    • Aseity
    • Aspect Grammar
    • Beatific Vision
    • begetting
    • Cambridge Change and Rigidity
    • communicable/incommunicable
    • Constraint First
    • Creatureliness
    • Divine Simplicity
    • ekporeusis
    • essence
    • extrinsic denomination
    • Filioque
    • generation
    • Gift-Logic: principle of term-side novelty
    • Gift-Ontology*
    • gift-term
    • giver-side act
    • God
    • How God Gives Without Becoming: A Relational-First Gift Ontology of Trinity and History
    • hypostasis
    • hypostatic
    • inseparable operations
    • Integrated but Non-Reductive Science
    • Irreducible Normativity and Intentionality
    • Mediators
    • missions and processions
    • Monarchy of the Father
    • no God behind God
    • non-competitive causality
    • non-composition
    • notional distinction
    • On the Holy Spirit
    • one principle, one spiration
    • opera ad extra indivisa
    • origin fromness
    • Participation and the Principle of Relationality
    • Participatory/Relational Realism
    • perichoresis
    • Perichoretic Simplicity
    • person (divine)
    • personal provenance
    • personal subsistence
    • primary causality
    • principle from principle
    • principle without principle
    • procession
    • Provenance
    • pure act
    • real distinction
    • real relations ad extra
    • Relation
    • relation of origin
    • Relational Gift-Ontology
    • relative opposition
    • rule of placement
    • Sacramental Specification
    • Salvation
    • secondary causality
    • spiration
    • subsistent relation
    • taxis
    • Teleology Enabled
    • term-side novelty
    • The Communicatio Idiomatum
    • The Communication of Idioms
    • The Grammar of Divine Reference: Grammar-First Theology and the Act-of-Relation-as-Gift (Start Here)
    • The Ontological Stack: 12 terms
    • The Primitive
    • The Trinity
    • Theophanic Horizon
    • Theophany
    • Trinitarian Act-Structuralism
    • Truth
    • Who Started The Catholic Church?
  • Introduction to the Principle of Relationality in Catholic Thought
    • The Principle of Relationality – A Theological Synthesis on the Relational Nature of God
    • The Principle of Relationality in Catholic Thought:
  • Is it Biblical?
    • What is the relationship between the Bible, the Church, and the Believer?
  • Jesus is Called God in the New Testament
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  • Pray the Rosary

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