
Ep. 121 Carolina Analytic Theology, Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism, and Is God a Moral Agent
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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The Ineffable Mystery of God
Davies says that it was not until Descartes in the 1600s that philosophers started referring to God as a person. But Augustine, Boethius, Peter Lombard, and Thomas Aquinas all explicitly affirm the personhood of God. Even Panathius, like Ramanuja say that personhood is a perfection that we must predicate of God. So what's going on here? Unless Augustine got an advanced copy of Descartes' writings, this claim from Davies is just demonstrably false.
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