Monthly Archives: February 2014

“by the Platonic books I was admonished to return unto myself…I entered with my soul’s eye, such as it was saw above the eye of my soul the immutable light higher than my mind… I said Surely truth cannot be … Continue reading →

Joel 3 10 Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” 12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge … Continue reading →

It was, however, Alfarabi (d. 950) and Avicenna (Ibn Sina) who more than anyone else, shaped the general character of Islamic philosophy.  It is difficult to exaggerate the influence of Alfarabi on the course of Islamic philosophy…Alfarabi first of all, … Continue reading →

The Theory Behind Omniscience, the Ugly Side of Calvinism It is not as if the knowledge of God were of various kinds, knowing in different ways things which as yet are not, things which are, and things which have been. … Continue reading →

The classical impassibilist insight that God is both impassible and impassioned… The central hub of the issue is the question of divine emotion, of which suffering is a subset.[1]   Rob Lister, God is Impassible and Impassioned :Toward a Theology … Continue reading →