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The Production of Righteousness
In the middle of the night I awoke with a brainstorm about economics. The basic problem at every moment is simple: what is the right thing to do now, the best thing to do? ************ Life is not...
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Looking for primary matter in fermions, bosons, and angels
Let us continue with our exercise of trying to infer natural philosophy conclusions from general features of the laws of physics. Again, our method will be to assume that a symmetry in physical laws...
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Repost: Evolution 101
[Here is another of my essays originally posted at Intellectual Conservative and destroyed by leftist hackers. In it, I refer to the evolution in which contemporary atheistic science believes as...
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What is it Like to Be Eternal?
Creaturely occasions cannot cause other creaturely occasions to exist. How can we know this? Causal relations between two creatures cannot obtain until they both actually exist so as to have relations...
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Theosis
What is it like to live the life everlasting that is promised to Christians? The question has arisen in the last few days both over at View from the Right, where Lawrence Auster is contemplating his...
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Christ is How You are Doing This
When Christ says in John 14:6 that he is the Way, the Truth, and the Light, he does not only mean that he is the Way to the Father. He means also that he – and the Father, and the Holy Spirit – are the...
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The Argument from Truth
Omniscience could not fail to comprehend all truths, and anything less than omniscience would fail as an understanding of the whole truth. Further, only omniscience could fully understand the whole...
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Order, Randomness & Evolution
Fellow orthospherean blogger Chester Poe (of Occidental Traditionalist) commented: … something I have long wondered. What are the opinions of Kristor, bonald, and Mr. Roebuck, on the issue of Evolution...
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What natural theology does for personal piety
Our friend Bruce Charlton has recently devoted several posts (they are all worth reading, but see especially here) to arguing that the tenets of classical theism can be bad for the faith of ordinary...
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Aquinas vs. Ovid: body, soul, and person
As she splashed his hair with revengeful drops, she spoke the spine-chilling words which warned of impending disaster: ‘Now you may tell the story of seeing Diana naked– if story-telling is in your...
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Prayer Extensions
I have been corresponding via email with one of our commenters. The correspondence began when I chided him for pushing the envelope on our comments policy. Slowly, gradually he has revealed to me that...
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The God of the Infinite Gaps
Scorn is often poured upon the notion that God intervenes from time to time in a causal system that is otherwise cooking along quite nicely, and in good orderly fashion, all on its own. This is the...
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Rene Girard on a Cause of Homosexuality
From Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978; English translation, 1987); Book III, Chapter 3, “Mimesis and Sexuality” (Pages 337 – 338) “If we recognize that the sexual appetite can be...
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Stochastic Sempiternity
Bruce Charlton suggests in a recent post that the eternal pre-mortem existence of the human soul might be a way to provide room for our free agency in a system of things that seems otherwise, as wholly...
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Freedom is Extramundane
In the post Stochastic Sempiternity, commenter Bedarz Iliaci was uncomfortable with the notion that nature proceeds stochastically, as I there suggested. He insisted that the world must evolve...
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The Proper Terminus of All Thought
No matter what aspect of experience we might begin to think about, once we have begun, then provided we are honest, careful and courageous as we follow the path that patient deliberation gradually...
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The Argument from Intension
Consider this moment of your existence. In this moment, you have certain feelings. Notice that all these feelings are of two sorts: either reactive, or proactive. On the one hand, they are responses to...
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TOF Love
As is his inimitable, charming wont, Mike Flynn eviscerates eliminative materialism in the nicest possible way. A summa: Science is a filter, much like a fishing net; but we mustn’t conclude from the...
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Omniscience or Spontaneity
The disjunction forming the title of this post is true because both its operands are true. Prima facie, it seems impossible that it should be so: for, how can any creaturely event happen spontaneously...
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Apokatastasis
Lydia McGrew has posted a great-hearted and generous essay on Heaven, The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God, which I heartily encourage you to read. The following started out as a short comment...
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