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The Resurrection of Theism
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Copyright ? 2003 Roger Wasson Compa
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Affectionately Dedicated To Three o
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Thus no matter what conclusion one
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Origin of the Present Work: the Nee
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By way of anticipation I should lik
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conviction tempered with a deep Chr
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Sorely,
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Balfour, A. J. The Foundations of B
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Maritain, Jacques. The Degrees of K
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tions and reactions of the nature i
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If a person is to apprehend rationa
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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduct
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ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I
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Concerning Epistemology Proper ....
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Brunner............................
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Part III NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE E
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General Nature of the Argument.....
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Conclusion on the Teleological Argu
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CHAPTER III.THE REDUCTIVE ARGUMENT
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to the sphere of logical validity .
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as a whole, or of the particular in
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F. Conclusion on the Objections to
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CHAPTER I THE MEANING OF RATIONAL E
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what have you---but a representativ
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wrong in failing to cede to the rat
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contradiction results directly, whe
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(c) Infinite: in which a single pro
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to that which is its condition.”
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concerning things as noumena, all p
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ally a separate type, or reduces to
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therefore the category of causation
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of thought underlying a categorical
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The application of the categories b
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In a single paragraph Kant dismisse
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determining the number of categorie
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Hence, there is, strictly speaking,
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In other words, our first intelligi
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the fact that knowledge could not b
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from the proposition itself, else t
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Every attempt to derive the categor
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But if necessary logical laws do no
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certainly not an arbitrary definiti
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(4) Intuitionism, finally, asserts
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upon the proper occasion of observa
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knowledge is apparently to be conce
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(iii) An idea which the soul acquir
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position that is at the same time c
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this point, have consequently decla
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Detailed Exposition of the Theory P
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losophical system, in terms of whic
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man race, we must turn to Scripture
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insufficiency of theistic arguments
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could not recognize the fact of coh
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pound this system is to be taken on
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perience, I either espouse a world
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other positions displayed, this pro
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tic proofs, they intend, I suppose,
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determined by beliefs, and since, o
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clearly seen from the creation of t
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Chapter I THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE
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The plan of procedure will be as fo
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the first orientation---the macroco
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any other supposition the being con
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this way. For it is not within my p
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Gaunilon's criticism.---The above c
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It is illegitimate, Kant urged in t
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must therefore be that the real and
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We will, however, make a serious mi
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Now it will probably not occur to a
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consideration of what is meant by a
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What follows from this proof of suc
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Furthermore, this self of mine whic
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The argument then runs as follows:
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11: Descartes Selections, pp. 118,
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to ends and such transcension of th
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the intelligent will who made the f
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tion of particular finite intellige
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continued existence of life possibl
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emergence of life has occurred repe
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Now someone will object that the de
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which is valuable as preserving the
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character is such that it is only e
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is a causal order, it is amenable t
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The argument stated.---W. E. Hockin
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Microcosmic Point of View Introduct
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alism will be considered, it being
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we have already shown, to be imposs
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the production of previsioned ends:
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without the physical organism and w
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the materialist view all over again
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adapted physical context, so transc
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this question differ, there is, amo
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values or laws and of this ideal, h
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Ethics, Chapter II; C. E. M. Joad,
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On either line of analysis an ethic
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jectively true, then it is merely a
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intosh, The Problem of Religious Kn
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[indent] I find that the moral prin
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lationism---has been shown to be se
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more than the existence of a finite
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inner experience, yet what He is ca
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perience of God is either nonexiste
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The assertion that a consideration
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the world would not have required e
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objection. It is true that the argu
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cannot conceive or know the outcome
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is unknowable or He does not exist.
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Refutation of the Argument Granting
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unrelated. If the proposed absolute
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great arguments for God all reduce
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position and that in this sphere th
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Both Does and Does Not Exist Statem
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not fruitfully applicable in this p
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only be considered insofar as they
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theistic argumentation either colla
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suddenly found himself [[271]] susp
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Now we ourselves have already grant
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the philosopher's ass will starve f
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Answer to the argument.---To preven
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If it be objected that "we cannot d
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of an initial natural theology: hen
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contradiction. Either this proposit
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can I bar the conclusion from being
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is involved. The detailed attempt t
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If, in the face of such a difficult
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tion. That is, it is impossible and
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event for which there are no operat
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similar nature could be present wit
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would not enable me to say that the
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which do not involve the concept of
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to take something ab extra. Yet the
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of the process itself, which conseq
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gument proved necessity, it would n
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universe as a whole cannot be the a
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lute being which reason necessitate
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nificance is to be apprehended; sec
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By way of answer: we grant at once
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is made completely so by the cosmol
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In the first place, let us suppose
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Thus Mill (who sharply distinguishe
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accomplished by the lighting of a m
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[indent] Is there not something a t
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or it has no such assignable value.
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argument rests is far from being th
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is continuously maintained in accor
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causes which render an adequate exp
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it must be held that I directly per
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could hardly enable their possessor
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cases that are in dispute. If it be
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e said to have in itself the uncons
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tablished that the only rational ex
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It follows that neither an omnipote
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essary being ultimately imposes all
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In answer: the objection implies a
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plained, is necessarily coexistent,
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[indent] In sober truth, nearly all
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cepts or terms of explanation which
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part. Thus the naturalistic solutio
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the supposition that God Himself fa
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If, to consider the third alternati
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It seems, then, that the denial of
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clared to be emphatically genuine:
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anything in an ultimate sense, it i
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attempt at refutation will be made
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the problem: but it is impossible t
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ties of the problem of evil would n
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the complete self-conditioned and t
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-- Law Detailed application of the
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whether organic life could exist in
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. Reaction of divine purpose to the
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1. Ultimate Purpose: the production
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istence of freedom is also the sine
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irth of a deformed child results, i
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goras, 314.) But even this ultimate
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[Purpose] d. The contingency of mor
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perience with certain forms of thou
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Aquinas, St. Thomas. Basic Writings
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_______. Studies of the Doctrines o
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Joseph, H. W. B. An Introduction to
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Quine, W. V. "Two Dogmas of Empiric
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Warfield, B. B. The Inspiration and
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Atheism: as a volitional possibilit
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as essential to subjective, mystica
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elation to cosmological argument, 1
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as necessarily implying the coheren
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Hume, D. I criticism of cosmologica
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Kant, I. basic argument for the syn
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its a priori structure, 237 its met
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criticism of relativism in ethics,
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S Saint John of the Cross: doctrine
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Thermodynamics, second law of: rela