{"id":3197,"date":"2020-04-11T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/presentism-and-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2020-04-11T05:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:55:46","slug":"presentism-and-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/presentism-and-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentism and the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Alexander Pruss <a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderpruss.blogspot.com\/2019\/11\/presentism-and-cross.html\">argues<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">1) It is important for Christian life that one unite one\u2019s daily sacrifices with Christ\u2019s sufferings on the cross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">2) Uniting one\u2019s sufferings with something non-existent is not important for Christian life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">3) So, Christ\u2019s sufferings on the cross are a part of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">4) So, presentism is false.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Prussian argument is an enthymeme the tacit premise of which is<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">0) On presentism, only temporally present events exist or are real.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Add the above to your Holy Saturday meditations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Pruss argues: 1) It is important for Christian life that one unite one\u2019s daily sacrifices with Christ\u2019s sufferings on the cross. 2) Uniting one\u2019s sufferings with something non-existent is not important for Christian life. 3) So, Christ\u2019s sufferings on the cross are a part of reality. 4) So, presentism is false. The Prussian argument &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/11\/presentism-and-the-cross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Presentism and the Cross&#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":[58,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","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=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}