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219 - Dr. Nathan Jacobs - Theology for Those Who Don’t Fit

The Symbolic World

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The Divine Essence Is Simple, Right?

The term energy emerges from aristotle, right in it initially emerges in the contaxt of the unmoved mover. Aristotle was convinced that all this mutative, changing stuff in our world has to stand upon something that doesn't mutate. The alexandrian jews thought this was useful way of talking about god and his activity. And so they start to embrace this. But unlike aristotle, who had said that god's essence is inergia ort, he is just nothing but pure ino, perfect activity.

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