Logan Mace

Reformed Thomist. 2LCF.
MDiv student @SBTS.

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So clear

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@richbarcellos Hmmmm

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Joy of joys

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Gilson on Thomism.

"If we grant that a philosophy is not to be defined from the elements it borrows but from the spirit which quickens it, we shall see here neither Platonism nor Aristotelianism, but, above all, Christianity."

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[Logan Mace @LoganMace1689]

"The illusion . . . is that one can extract an ontology from an epistemology. . . . If one cannot get outside oneself to arrive at things when one makes thought the starting point, that proves that thought is not the point one should have started from"

Étienne Gilson

[Mitch Chase @mitchellchase]

One way to think about Jesus's cleansing of the temple is that he was upholding what was later known as the Regulative Principle of Worship.

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Evil is deprivation, properly no-thing. There is a connection between God creating out of nothing and God bringing good out of evil.

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@mitchellchase One substance composed of soul and body. Or rational animal.

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@1689Dogmatician @mitchellchase @navarro_chaz Unbiased, of course

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

These books comprise what I think of as a Basic Reality Quartet, a systematic defense of what perennial philosophy (Platonic/Aristotelian/Scholastic) takes to be the metaphysical structure of the world, deeper than and implicitly presupposed by whatever natural science tells us

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"Essence and existence together yield a composition *with* two principles. Matter and form together, on the other hand, yield a composition *from* two principles."

Brennan

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

Every time I read some contemporary theologian speak about the way some theological concept or doctrine doesn’t connect anymore or isn’t intelligible anymore, it reads mostly like autobiography or a confession that they’re not very good at explaining things.

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@d_a_goodman You ought to just wait and watch the new show instead

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

I'm thankful for what Piper wants to say here, but it would be helped by better distinctions. In 2LCF 4.2, we confess we were created "male and female, with *reasonable* and immortal souls, rendering them fit unto that life to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, in *knowledge*, righteousness, and true holiness" (2LCF 4.2).

AI does not possess that understanding and will of the human soul. It (quickly) simulates patterns of associating. So not only is the machine not enjoying, it's also not reasoning, as Piper suggests. (And animals have passions. My dog is regularly impassioned by the arrival of the Amazon guy).

So we need to distinguish genuine humanity from AI, but not at the expense of surrendering our reasoning to the machine. Compare Westminster divine, George Walker:

"As God loveth goodnesse and delighteth in it, so man loved and desired all good things, which his upright *reason and will did lead him unto*. In all this did the Image of God primarily consist" (cited in Renihan, Confessing the Faith, vol. 2, on 2LCF 4.2 - see this section of Renihan's commentary).

And it is our renewed reason and will that will lead us into that endless enjoyment of God.

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It's frustrating to read modern theologians who write with a strong rhetorical piety, yet the substance of their words is unclear, uncareful, and/or incorrect. Reminds me of Richard Dawkins. All the persuasiveness comes from the tone; the arguments are terrible.

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Being able to read 1 John in Greek (slowly) in the mornings is pretty cool

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[Mitch Chase @mitchellchase]

I am confident, in fact, that I can complete this challenge every week.