04.29.09
Greek and Judaic theologies
Comment on Downhill from Nietzsche?
James said,
April 29, 2009 at 3:55 pm ·
“Aquinas would tell you that God is not an entity of any classifiable or verifiable kind and most certainly is not a mega-manufacturer who plotted out the universe on some celestial computer screen. Rather, “God is what sustains all things in being by his love, and … is the reason why there is something instead of nothing, the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever.””It’s all fine and well to point this out, but the problem is that we can trace the intellectual roots of this idea to realize that it results from two incompatible traditions. It is too clumsy and odd to mix up Greek impersonal thought with Yahweh.
The early Christians of the Roman Empire began to have a problem with their own tradition, seeing that the ‘god’ idea had evolved from its Israelite sources.