{"id":14155,"date":"2026-05-31T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14155"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:40:02","slug":"if-god-created-the-world-who-created-the-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/if-god-created-the-world-who-created-the-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"If God Created the World, Who Created the Creator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas Merton claims that the title question is a good koan. I maintain that it isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I then give two examples of what I consider to be good Christian koans. <em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/if-god-created-the-world-who-created?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article is relevant to my ongoing discussion with Tom Carroll. I thank him once again for <em>engaging<\/em>, as opposed to<em> opposing<\/em>, my ideas.\u00a0 Those who think oppositionally in philosophy are not philosophers but ideologues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Merton claims that the title question is a good koan. I maintain that it isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I then give two examples of what I consider to be good Christian koans. Substack latest. This article is relevant to my ongoing discussion with Tom Carroll. I thank him once again for engaging, as opposed to opposing, my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/if-god-created-the-world-who-created-the-creator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If God Created the World, Who Created the Creator?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,58,73,41,106,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-philosophy-and-pseudophilosophy","category-christian-doctrine","category-merton-thomas","category-mysticism","category-spiritual-exercises","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14162,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions\/14162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}