{"id":6521,"date":"2016-04-13T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/13\/william-lane-craig-responds-to-david-bentley-hart-and-edward-feser\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:04:10","slug":"william-lane-craig-responds-to-david-bentley-hart-and-edward-feser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/13\/william-lane-craig-responds-to-david-bentley-hart-and-edward-feser\/","title":{"rendered":"William Lane Craig Responds to David Bentley Hart and Edward Feser"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tip of the hat to Karl White for alerting me to this YouTube video<\/a> that runs about 20 minutes.  Professor Craig explains, with characteristic lucidity, why he does not accept the doctrine of divine simplicity and its entailments. <\/span><\/p>\n

See my divine simplicity category<\/a> and my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article<\/a> on the topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the deep issues here is whether or not Christianity was early on infected by Hellenism, or whether Greek thought, far from being a foreign intrusion, is intrinsic to Christianity.  I side with David Bentley Hart on this question.  In The Lively God of Robert Jensen<\/a>, Hart writes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . it is arguable that \u201cHellenism\u201d is already an intrinsic dimension of the New Testament itself and that some kind of \u201cPlatonism\u201d is inseparable from the Christian faith. In short, many theologians view the development of Christian metaphysics over the millennium and a half leading to the Reformation as perfectly in keeping with the testimony of Scripture, and \u201cHellenized\u201d Christianity as the special work of the Holy Spirit\u2014with which no baptized Christian may safely break. To such theologians, the alliance struck in much modern dogmatics between theology and German idealism is a far greater source of concern than any imagined \u201cGreek captivity\u201d of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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UPDATE (4\/16):  Ed Feser's detailed rejoinder to Craig is here<\/a> wherein the former  makes a number of clarifying comments and rebuts some outright misrepresentations on Craig's part.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A tip of the hat to Karl White for alerting me to this YouTube video that runs about 20 minutes.  Professor Craig explains, with characteristic lucidity, why he does not accept the doctrine of divine simplicity and its entailments.  See my divine simplicity category and my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on the topic. One … Continue reading “William Lane Craig Responds to David Bentley Hart and Edward Feser”<\/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":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-simplicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","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=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}