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Posted onApril 13, 2025April 13, 2025Uncategorized

O’Regan and Horner on Marion

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The Dynamics of Relationality in Marion: A Compare-and-Contrast of O’Regan and Horner Introduction Jean‐Luc Marion’s theological turn has sparked a radical rethinking of the way…

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Posted onApril 1, 2025April 1, 2025Uncategorized

Relational Model of the Monarchy of the Father

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How can the one unity of God be preserved alongside the distinct, co-equal Persons of the Trinity? I. Introduction My systematic theology re-envisions the traditional…

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Posted onMarch 7, 2025March 7, 2025Uncategorized

Bibliography for Pope Studies

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A bibliography of key texts and studies related to the Early Church Fathers and the concept of apostolic succession: Primary Sources: Secondary Sources: These works…

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Posted onFebruary 23, 2025February 25, 2025Uncategorized

How Was the Right-Wing Disinformation Media Able to Take Over America?

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There’s a proverb my friend Izreal recently posted, that in turn was probably originally from someone like Mark Twain. It goes like this: “It’s easier…

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Posted onJanuary 23, 2025January 23, 2025Uncategorized

How does SSGO treat God’s full givenness in each Person as an explanatory “primitive”?

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Q: How does SSGO treat God’s full givenness in each Person as a “primitive” that explains both the unity of the divine essence and the…

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Posted onJanuary 10, 2025January 10, 2025Uncategorized

Is SSGO Biblical?

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Question #36: Is SSGO Biblical? Yes. The biblical heartbeat behind the premise that each divine Person is the total essence from that Person’s relational vantage…

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Posted onDecember 30, 2024December 30, 2024Uncategorized

Does God Change?

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“Does God Change?” The question we’re going to address today is actually pretty straightforward: can God change? The answer, of course, is no. That’s the…

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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 onOctober 25, 2024October 25, 2024Uncategorized

ChatGPT on SSGO and Information Theory

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I was curious if the metaphysics of SSGO (see my glossary of terms at the top of my blog) would be explanatory for the physics…

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Posted onOctober 23, 2024October 23, 2024Uncategorized

Causality

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Causality and Self-Standing Givenness: Reflections on the Relational Nature of Reality When we delve into the intricacies of the Self-Standing Givenness Ontology (SSGO), we find…

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    • Divine Givenness AND DIVINE ATTRIBUTES IN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
    • Why the Bible is Trinitarian
  • Divine Simplicity and the Trinity Explained
  • Introduction to the Principle of Relationality in Catholic Thought
  • Is it Biblical?
  • Pray the Rosary
  • The Principle of Relationality – A Theological Synthesis on the Relational Nature of God
  • The Principle of Relationality in Catholic Thought:
  • Music
  • Defending Divine Simplicity
    • “All in God is God” & Person Distinctions
    • “Could Have” Scenario & Sovereignty
    • “God’s Creative Act = God” & Contingency
    • Act = Essence vs. “Free Out of Nothing”
    • Actus Purus, Freedom, & No Latent Potential
    • Communicating Simplicity to Modern Believers
    • DIVINE SIMPLICITY & THE INCARNATION
    • DIVINE SIMPLICITY & THE QUESTION OF “THREE WILLS”
    • Divine Simplicity and Relational Plenitude:
    • Does hyperintensionality challenge divine simplicity?
    • Does Simplicity Distance God?
    • Does the context precede the Persons?
    • Dumitru Stăniloae
    • Erich Przywara
    • Freedom, Intentionality, & Avoiding Collapse
    • Fully God in Each Person, No Division
    • God and Time
    • 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?
    • Jean-Luc Marion
    • Jiri Benovsky
    • JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER
    • Karl Rahner
    • key sources
    • Lateran Council 1215
    • Leibniz’s Law & God’s Creative Identity
    • Marion, Benovsky, Aquinas
    • 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)?
    • 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 the Image of God?
    • Simplicity vs. Scriptural Emotions
    • Simplicity vs. Trinity: Theological Responses
    • Sources Shaping SSGO Notes
    • 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’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?

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