By: Jay Dyer How are we to replace the base, contradictory narrative of man’s “progress” with something better? Is there an answer elsewhere? Can claims of religious belief and theology be rational? Are they not...
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By: Jay Dyer The doctrine of the revelation of God in terms of Scripture is not as confusing as difficult as many have made it. Since the argument for Scripture as revealed and authoritative as...
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By: Jay Dyer I thought when I was going to see Assassin’s Creed it was a film about the attempt on 90s phenom frontman Scott Stapp’s life. I was in for something quite different, as...
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By: Jay Dyer Assessing the problems in American public education and academia elicits standard responses that are generally trite and multitude. “Lack of funding,”, or “adequately trained teachers,” often round out the usual replies,...
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By: Jay Dyer There are numerous misunderstandings surrounding the subjects of Genesis, creation, evolution, science and theology, which muddy the primordial goo even further than it already was (if only it was real!). From reliance...
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By: Jay Dyer The appeal of anarchism is understandable, especially in our day of what seems to be spectacular corruption on the part of members of the establishment. In the online-fueled furor of Ron Paul’s...
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By: Jay Dyer The torture is about to commence, as we will soon be subjected to an endless barrage of dispensationalist and millennialist advertising and propaganda, as the Left Behind series makes its way to...
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By: Jay Dyer I have written on scientism lately, and in the archives several more critiques of scientism and naïve empiricism (its presupposition) are available. The question then arises as to how are we to...
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By: Jay Dyer When considering the question of “proofs” for the existence of God, the history of argumentation has often been lacking. The dialectical relationship of the empirical/materialist tradition debating with the idealist/Platonic tradition is...
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γνῶθι σεαυτόν By: Jay Dyer Certain snotty critics in a forum posted a criticism of my Thomism article, where I looked at the flaws in Thomism that led to, I believe, to Enlightenment scientism. That’s a good segue into the...
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By: Jay Dyer Plato, Philo, Plotinus, Dionysius, Augustine, Basil, John of Damascus, Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, John Scotus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and many others all profess a doctrine of divine exemplarism. This is Plato’s forms or universals or logoi as located...
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Critical Ruminations By: Jay Being a big fan of Eco, I like Eco’s critique of being. Not generic being, but the convertibility of being in Aquinas. I like being, too. In his The Aesthetics of...
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By: Jay Dyer “…The Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and…we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness.” -St. Gregory the Theologian St. Gregory of Nazianzus is one of only two Doctors/theologians...
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By: Jay Dyer As is evident in conversations with both unenlightened Catholics and Calvinists (but especially Calvinists), the starting point of theology – the ordo theologiae is radically different. The West starts with the nature and...
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By: Jay Dyer Basically, the argument is that in the reformed view of imputation, the “righteousness” Christ earns via His keeping of the law is *not a righteousness based on His divine energy (since that...
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N. writes: No offense Jay, but you are operating on multiple, severely flawed groundworks. For example: 1) Thomas never taught God was like a blob of jello such that ‘Father = Son’. That is a...
Read MoreBy: Jay Dyer When Taylor Marshall and crew originally fussed about this, they were content to dismiss it as “Palamism” – some form of obscure medieval Byzantine mysticism. Now, after more reflection and realizing that...
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By: Jay Dyer When considering the question of... Numbers Prove God –...
By: Jay Dyer When considering the question of...
This is the free half of a... The Occult History of...
This is the free half of a...
Reflecting on the debate with Adam Kokesh and... JaysAnalysis: Refuting...
Reflecting on the debate with Adam Kokesh and...
I join guys to discuss theology, religion,... Catholic, Orthodox, Atheist:...
I join guys to discuss theology, religion,...
By: Jay Dyer The reboot of Bond with... Casino Royale (2006)...
By: Jay Dyer The reboot of Bond with...
