Academic disabled by #LongCovid since December 2020. "By reason of my infirmities, I am ... like a plant, always held to the same place" (Basil, ep. 9).
Jan 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Okay, 5 thoughts 1. In the interview, David said that the *rational* creation is said to be of the same genos as God (more on this in Point 4 below). 2. Jonathan's right about his passage, but the point here (and in the two parallels) is restricted 1/13
to the *material* creation alone. That is, for Gregory, matter is not of the same genos as God (actually this gets tricky when Gregory solves the puzzle he poses here). 3. Gregory says in various places that rational soul or mind or humanity is akin to & suggene^s to God. 2
Apr 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Stirring the theology pot. To me the following ideas are obvious and non-controversial, but I suspect others find them highly contentious: the Christian scriptures are dogmatically underdetermined and for the most part philosophically innocent. They practically beg to be read …
dogmatically and philosophically, but they can be read plausibly in a wide range of ways, much wider than any historical dogmatic statement or philosophical model would allow. Again I take this as obvious; otherwise no controversy would have ever arisen. I also assume some …
