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A Recent Spate of Calvinism.  Part Five.
http://neiswonger.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-recent-spate-of-calvinism-part-four/”>Continued from Part Four.
“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico. In this conception there is no lessening of the dignity and […]

First causes and second thoughts.  (an answer to a friend)
Plato and Aristotle were the big “First Cause” guys.  They wrote quite a bit about it in their books on everything from politics to metaphysics.  It’s must reading for those interested.  Aquinas was the main technical formulator of the Five Ways, or what we call the […]

 On Atheisms and why they are unthinkable.
There are things, we can call them things because we don’t really know what else to call them, like the laws of logic, numbers, consciousness, ethics, relations, things that seem to be eternal and unchangeable, that are inexplicable in terms of eternal material as the singular explanatory fact, or […]

A Recent Spate of Calvinism.  Part Four.
When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously.  We all know that man has a will.  The question is generally as to what man desires, not whether or not he does so.  There has been […]