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Posted onFebruary 1, 2025February 17, 2025Systematics

Self-Standing Givenness as a World View

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A framework for a catholic systematic theology

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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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Posted onOctober 7, 2024October 7, 2024Philosophy

Self-Standing Givenness

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Reconciling Divine Simplicity and the Trinity: Intro to the Self-Standing Givenness Ontology You can also see my video on the SSGO’s first principle here: The…

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Posted onJune 12, 2024June 12, 2024Uncategorized

Basic Action and Relational Ontology

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Basic Action and Divine Relational Ontology: A Theological Exploration through Magneto and Actus Purus Abstract This paper explores the concept of basic action within a…

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Posted onJune 11, 2024June 11, 2024Uncategorized

God is NOT time TLDR

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If you are not gonna read my full piece on the conceptual analysis and defense of God’s immutability, then this piece will serve as a…

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Posted onJune 10, 2024June 11, 2024Uncategorized

God is NOT Time

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God is NOT Time: a Conceptual Analysis of Time and Eternity The relationship between God and time is an intricate (deep!) subject that is central…

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Posted onMay 13, 2024May 13, 2024Philosophy

Is Relationality itself A Form of Divine Simplicity?

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Warning, this post uses the newest model of ChatGPT, ChatGPT 4o, the newest model published on 05/13/2024, to propose a speculative theology that subsistent relations…

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Posted onDecember 28, 2023December 30, 2023Uncategorized

Answering Potential Contradictions in the Doctrine of the Trinity: A Vocabulary First Approach

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There are roughly 3 main problems with the doctrine of the Trinity that come up when presenting my own work on the doctrine here on…

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Posted onDecember 13, 2023December 13, 2023Philosophy

Delving into the Relational Infinity Model of the Trinity by Robert Moses Dryer with the help of ChatGPT

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——————— They wish to understand how the Trinity uttered that voice which was only of the Father; and how the same Trinity created that flesh…

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Posted onDecember 3, 2023May 10, 2024Uncategorized

Trinitarian Exploration of the Creator-Creature Distinction: A Primer

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talk with the creator-creature distinction without my bot on the home page, or if you have an OpenAi account, you can talk to it here…

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  • Blog posts and Documents I’ve Written
    • Divine Givenness AND DIVINE ATTRIBUTES IN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
    • Why the Bible is Trinitarian
  • Defending The Principle of Relationality: A Relational-First Paradigm for Divine Simplicity and Trinity
    • A Relational Model of the Trinity
    • relation equals essence
  • 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?
  • Pray the Rosary
  • Music
  • 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?
    • 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:
    • 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
    • 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
    • Leibniz’s Law and 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 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?

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