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Philosophy for Theology?

Grace in Common

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New Calvism Is Really Helpful to Engage With

New Calvism is really helpful to engage with because we need to think about these global philosophies right if you have this view of Christianity has to be allied to one perennial philosophy namely Kant or Plato or whoever else. Christian Platonism thinks of Plato as a limb within Christianity whereas we would think of Platonism as or Plato's tools as you know just a hammer that we can use and then pick up and then put down again. So no one philosophy is part of the body of Christianity yet they all provide us with really helpful machinery and tools that we can used. I find it really problematic in many ways I mean one of the things that  it does it violates the basic principle

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