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  1. Notthedarkweb

    Universes

    Yeah, solipsism or even extremely abstract individualism isn't a fruitful way of thinking about subjectivity. If you abstract away experience to attempt a phenomenology of the transcendental conditions of our experience, the positing of a world out there towards which subjects are oriented and...
  2. Notthedarkweb

    Why do we embrace tradition, especially in the west?

    I think I agree with most of the comments here that it is not particularly the West alone that adheres to tradition, but disagree with the idea that it doesn't in comparison with other "cultures" (whatever that means with respects to some faux-unified "West"?.) Gadamer points out that Kant...
  3. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    Idk, the Anglican Church, at least the ACC and the ECUSA, are both creedal churches that require the trinitarian formula of the Nicene creed as dogma, but you do you.
  4. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    I disagree with none of this! Paula Frederiksen has shown pretty clearly Paul was a devout Jew. I was just pushing back against the claims in the original post I was responding to that Paul's kyrios formulae explicitly militated against binitarianism or that Paul was pushing a Gnostic...
  5. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    No, the Anglican Communion still accepts original sin and the Augustinian conception of sin being a reformed church and men requiring only the activity of God's saving grace to justify them. But it's true that our conception is coloured by the English Reformation where the grace of God through...
  6. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    Anglicans see hell as either the total extinction of the possibility of happiness due to a complete absence of God in sinners or the annihilation of the soul of the sinner due to it lacking any place in God's divine plan. We usually don't see it as spatialized and instead view it as a state of...
  7. Notthedarkweb

    Quran has the best guidance about war and peace.

    Wait, your justification for the claim "Quran is the best epistemic authority" is "To recognize the Quran as an epistemic authority you have to recognize it as an epistemic authority and accept its content"? Lmfao.
  8. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    Are we talking about Paul or the non-Pauline Didache now? I already said that the synoptics don't have the identity shema of Paul since they are from the Jesus sayings-tradition. The Didache reference was to show that the form of the trinitarian formula was older than the 4th century, I agree...
  9. Notthedarkweb

    World oil woes

    Yeah thats why public transit and pro-urbanist development is necessary.
  10. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    I mentioned the identity of Jesus and God the Father in the shema concept, not the trinity. But again, there's a lot of claims going on here that are completely unsourced, so if you actually have academic resources to bring to the discussion like say, MacGrath's (now outdated) work, I am not...
  11. Notthedarkweb

    Quran has the best guidance about war and peace.

    Lol
  12. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    You are using the English text, but the distinction isn't clear at all in the Koine Greek text, which is why so many actual Pauline scholars, whom I trust you believe know more than you think that the shema Paul is reciting implicates the identity of God the Father and Jesus. That's all I really...
  13. Notthedarkweb

    Quran has the best guidance about war and peace.

    You haven't shown that. You have presumed p1 and p2 and are trying to prove p3.
  14. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    I mean, now you are just saying stuff, no offense. Kyrios is supposed to signify both adon as referring to human masters and the tetragammaton (adonai). See: Careful readers will notice that here and there in the Old Testament the word Lord (or in certain cases God) is printed in capital...
  15. Notthedarkweb

    Quran has the best guidance about war and peace.

    So there are three premises to your argument: P1: That there is a universally valid teaching about conflict. P2: This valid teaching is that B. P3: The Quran contains this valid teaching C: Therefore the Quran contains the universally valid teaching about conflict. But what if...I don't accept...
  16. Notthedarkweb

    Why do you need salvation?

    Idk why I assumed they had she/her pronouns. My bad.
  17. Notthedarkweb

    Why do you need salvation?

    lol.
  18. Notthedarkweb

    Is Saint Paul more authoritative than the Gospels?

    "Son" is intended as a phenomenological term which describes how our cognitive acts understand the relation between the persons of the trinity. We can replace "son" with the form "Person B of the Godhead is predicated of Person A in the propositional form "B descends from A''". It's why the Son...
  19. Notthedarkweb

    European Religious Figures

    Fr. Rowan Williams is a well-respected theologian, former Archbishop of Canterbury and sometimes gives academic speeches on philosophers and theologians. If possible, try finding his 2016 Hulsean Lectures at Cambridge. I especially like his lecture on Calvin's Christology as mirroring that of...
  20. Notthedarkweb

    Why do you need salvation?

    Ma'am, what the hell are you smoking? What relation does this have to EO theology that you profess to follow? I am not an Eastern Christian, but I trust Chrysostom and Bulgakov didn't mean whatever this is.
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