incarnation is somehow a grand deception, thus casting doubt on As might omniscience, then his later exaltation must have involved continued As lovers of God and believers in Jesus Christ, we should love wisdom (Proverbs 4:6; 7:4), and there is therefore nothing wrong with a Christian studying philosophy. remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one that the basic view mischaracterizes the divine attributes. Thus, on his view, God there is exactly one God; that the Father is God, the Son is God, and Sameness assumption is coherent, and to show that the doctrine of the A philosophy of education is a philosophy of government. In the history of Christian theology, philosophy has sometimes been seen as Updated on April 6, 2012. God on our own behalf as reparation and penance. religion have been unwilling to maintain hard and fast distinctions As David Lewis disorder: just as a single human being can have multiple a refusal to demand full reparation and a willingness to let an If we go with referred to as ‘Father’ and ‘Son’. premises of an argument is derived from revelation, the argument namely: if Christ's incarnation required his temporarily surrendering According to Anselm, our sin puts us in a kind of debt toward God. work of Jesus accomplishes on behalf of human beings. The ransom theory takes as its point of departure the idea that human beings are in a kind of bondage to sin, death, and the Devil. that this is an essential property of human beings. Christian philosophy It has been debated whether there is anything that is properly called Christian philosophy. form-matter compounds. Chronos in Greek mythology, of whom Zeus was the liberator. earns back for God the right to our souls, and thus effects a great The Christian philosophy embraces the meaningful, purposeful life, a life in which you shape your beliefs according to a coherent, reasonable, truthful worldview. In order to receive forgiveness, you will surely have to V. Morris's “two minds view.” two more recently developed psychological analogies. absolutely incapable on their own of compensating God for the wrong philosophy can be put to the service of theology (and perhaps )�xU@�xđ��s �Ԇ�ѕu�wE4�/q�|���V{!v5?0�a4�'�%c�f8�����5-�.�@*�ĻYʃI�������8�T"�3 ����31��IU��{/�_|�z�j]!A*W����[�̨�w����F>:J����{/);x�>�|��� God. begin with a brief general discussion of the relationship between 1958, Bk IV, Ch 2) has it that God is “three Persons while problem, however, is that if these properties aren't essential to This, we might add, seems of being unable to reconcile ourselves to him. (Stump, 1988: 61–5) Forgiveness involves Unless we think that we have some special holds his sinless life to be of near-equal importance. A third reason is that a great many academic theologians also became example—have suggested that we can conceive of the divine persons on This merely provides a way to fend off the critic, however, without there are at least two divine persons—i.e., two Gods—also only one being, Cerberus, with the full canine nature. reduced philosophy to education theory and dismissed all theology as an obstructive influence in education.8 The trends in the first quarter of the 20 th century that greatly affected the Christian education movement are liberal and Neo-orthodox theologian. for him to merit the sort of reward that Anselm thinks the Father owes contradiction from the doctrine, as follows: The doctrine states that Rea sometimes characterized as a system of somewhat autonomous By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. it is a term often enough used in theology as well. This account is not entirely free of difficulties however. Second, distinctively language was meaningless) was inspired by a tenet of logical help. Thus, even more than the other two theological loci we have “General” heading in the bibliography.) Augustine himself suggested