{"id":2350,"date":"2021-11-11T04:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/11\/god-doesnt-philosophize\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T04:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:12:30","slug":"god-doesnt-philosophize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/11\/god-doesnt-philosophize\/","title":{"rendered":"God Doesn&#8217;t Philosophize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">He doesn&#39;t need to.&#0160; We need to. But our neediness goes together with our inability to make any progress at it.&#0160; A double defect: need and inability.&#0160; The truth we need we cannot acquire by our own efforts.&#0160; It is this fact that motivates some philosophers to consider the possibility of divine revelation. Can they raise the question of revelation without leaving Athens?&#0160; Can they show the need for, and the possibility of, divine revelation without ceasing to be philosophers?&#0160; If I understand Maurice Blondel, that was his project.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#39;t need to.&#0160; We need to. But our neediness goes together with our inability to make any progress at it.&#0160; A double defect: need and inability.&#0160; The truth we need we cannot acquire by our own efforts.&#0160; It is this fact that motivates some philosophers to consider the possibility of divine revelation. Can they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/11\/god-doesnt-philosophize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Doesn&#8217;t Philosophize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blondel","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","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=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}