Answering Classical Theist Objections to Neo-Classical Theism with Dr. Ryan Mullins | (MoR No. 10)

Isn’t Neo-classical theism silly? Not so fast. In this video, Dr. Ryan Mullins, Micah Edvenson, and I discuss prominent classical theist objections to Neo-classical theism (“Theistic Personalism” as some folk call it).  

Here are the criticisms we cover:

1. Prisoner of Time objection (against Divine temporality) 

2. Aseity entails DDS 

3. Composition entails causal dependence      

       3a. The argument from this-such-ness (Nemes, Vallicella)      

        3b. Feser’s Neo-Platonic proof      

          3c. Thomistic essence-existence argument 

4. Neo-CT entails God is a creature      

       4a. Anthropomorphism 

5. Biblical arguments for CT 

6. Simplicity is necessary to rule out polytheism (Feser) 

7. Platonic argument from perfection 

8. Problems for passibility      

        8a. Horny God objection      

         8b. Interminable suffering and hell

Abbreviation key:  

CT: Classical Theism 

Neo-CT: Neo-Classical Theism 

DDS: Doctrine of Divine Simplicity  

Curious to learn more about CT, Neo-CT, and the work of those features in the discussion? Check these out:  

Ryan’s podcast: https://www.rtmullins.com/podcast  

Micah’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5PC...  

My blog post on CT: https://majestyofreason.wordpress.com...  

My book: https://www.amazon.com/Majesty-Reason...   Here’s a special link to our show notes:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/19...