Comments on: The sterilities of natural theology http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:54:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt B http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4094 Matt B Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:28:22 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-4094 Thanks, both of you. Thanks, both of you.

]]> By: annegb http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4092 annegb Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:59:00 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-4092 Wonderful post, Matt, thank you. Wonderful post, Matt, thank you.

]]> By: smb http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4053 smb Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:40:43 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-4053 i'm with you matt. thanks for the reminder. i’m with you matt. thanks for the reminder.

]]> By: Kerry Shirts http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3816 Kerry Shirts Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:04:40 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3816 Well, that's what I get for reading in the Journal of Discourses. Those old talks and camp meeting type sacrament meeting lessons are unbeatable...... Well, that’s what I get for reading in the Journal of Discourses. Those old talks and camp meeting type sacrament meeting lessons are unbeatable……

]]> By: Ardis Parshall http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3748 Ardis Parshall Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:37:30 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3748 Great post. I especially liked your vocabulary, the reaching for words to pin down that sense of holy otherness that we recognize but really don't have the words to describe. Great post. I especially liked your vocabulary, the reaching for words to pin down that sense of holy otherness that we recognize but really don’t have the words to describe.

]]> By: Matt Bowman http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3742 Matt Bowman Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:55:54 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3742 By the way, thanks for the kind words, all. By the way, thanks for the kind words, all.

]]> By: Matt Bowman http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3741 Matt Bowman Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:55:39 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3741 Clark - I agree 'natural theology' could be defined in a variety of ways; I'm being intentionally a bit fuzzy and riffing some off of people like William Paley and other nineteenth century evangelicals who were confident that science and reason could eventually understand God. Now, this is not terribly far off from Aquinas, but even he believed that revelatory knowledge ultimately trumped - and resisted - human understanding. You don't see that in Paley. Clark – I agree ‘natural theology’ could be defined in a variety of ways; I’m being intentionally a bit fuzzy and riffing some off of people like William Paley and other nineteenth century evangelicals who were confident that science and reason could eventually understand God. Now, this is not terribly far off from Aquinas, but even he believed that revelatory knowledge ultimately trumped – and resisted – human understanding. You don’t see that in Paley.

]]> By: Wayne L. http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3736 Wayne L. Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:34:05 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3736 Matt, nothing truer could be said than the fact that beauty is a mystery. I really enjoyed this. However, let me be clear that I would not mind a God who is a benevolent Santa Claus. If you are a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, you will see why, from the perspective of the imperfect one, it is always good to have someone to count on to give you stuff, even when you don't deserve it. Matt, nothing truer could be said than the fact that beauty is a mystery. I really enjoyed this. However, let me be clear that I would not mind a God who is a benevolent Santa Claus. If you are a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, you will see why, from the perspective of the imperfect one, it is always good to have someone to count on to give you stuff, even when you don’t deserve it.

]]> By: JKC http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3731 JKC Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:13:40 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3731 Amen and amen. I sometimes picture God as an old Native American medicine man/shaman/Old Testament Prophet type of figure, sitting up on top of an impossibly high mesa somewhere in the American Southwest. I'd like to see somebody paint that, and then get it published in the Ensign. Amen and amen.

I sometimes picture God as an old Native American medicine man/shaman/Old Testament Prophet type of figure, sitting up on top of an impossibly high mesa somewhere in the American Southwest. I’d like to see somebody paint that, and then get it published in the Ensign.

]]> By: Devyn S. http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3729 Devyn S. Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:18:38 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/01/21/the-sterilities-of-natural-theology.htm#comment-3729 Great post - Kerry Shirts - I love the comment <blockquote cite="try ever harder to show the old Mormonism of Joseph Smith & Brigham Young, the one that stretches broad as eternity, and deep as infinity."> That is such a beautiful way of describing the early theological views and musings of that era.</blockquote> Great post – Kerry Shirts – I love the comment
That is such a beautiful way of describing the early theological views and musings of that era.

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