TagAquinas

Appendix: A Return to Patristic Orthodoxy

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Purpose of This Appendix In the main essay, I acknowledged that my retention of conditional immortality might appear, to outside observers, like I’ve simply retained heterodox elements from my Christadelphian background with a thin Trinitarian veneer. That would be a serious misreading. This appendix addresses that concern directly by exploring whether conditional immortality might have...

Ockham and Aquinas

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Title of the Assignment Compare and contrast the approaches offered regarding human knowledge by Aquinas and Ockham. Commentary This one was a bit of a tough one. Everyone thinks that an “open book exam” is easy, but markers will naturally approach an open book exam with a more critical eye simply because you are expected to use your access to the text to provide a better quality...

Cur Deus Homo

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Title of the Assignment An interaction with a philosophical document from the ancient/medieval periods with significance for the relationship between Christianity and a major philosophical issue. Summarise the key ideas of one of the documents below, and outline what contribution (or questions) it makes/raises for the relationship between Christianity and the philosophical perspective or issue...