tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post3707236744113905764..comments2024-03-28T13:15:29.740-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: Alternatives to “law” in scienceJoseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-80999857280849900322017-08-29T07:47:37.667-07:002017-08-29T07:47:37.667-07:00Hey Joe, I thought your second post here was a pre...Hey Joe, I thought your second post here was a pretty good response! <br /><br />To the point....Mike Gerowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630695728013930638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-24569982764710223562017-08-28T22:11:12.200-07:002017-08-28T22:11:12.200-07:00God is power, thus God does not need to enshrine p...God is power, thus God does not need to enshrine power as the as is center of value,which is what Trump does. The businessman seeks self aggrandizement and uses enlightened self interest as a vehicle for power. That is because his power is only relative. Power is not an issue for God so his center is love.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-87734408707860778672017-08-28T22:07:18.420-07:002017-08-28T22:07:18.420-07:00Mike Gerow said...
True in theology too (as you ar...Mike Gerow said...<br />True in theology too (as you are likely aware) ....feminist theologians tend to relational or co-sufferer images of God thus trying to subvert older characterizations of God based upon "dominance, hierarchy and linear understanding" in their field too.<br /><br />So, Joe, how about that? How would you answer that sort of fem-theological critique?<br /><br /><b>I take their concerns seriously I am not just using them to play tyhe PC ID politics card. I'm a egalitarian.</b><br /><br />In political terms, does your singular, top-of-the-hierarchy "TS" concept enable a Donald Trump? Or even worse, some actually competent dictatorial ruler of the "free world" in the future? This is not like you politically, of course not, but does the current US political sitch cause you to ponder any of your theo-metaphysical assumptions? <br /><br /><b>No of course not, Trump is opposed to everything I think is at the top of the hierarchy. Just because the hierarchy flows top down deoesn't mean top down is the value at the top. My favorite professor of all time is William S. Babcock an Augustinian historian at Perkins,(SMU) who led me to see that whatever put at the top is then imposed downward. If you put egalitarian social democracy at the top then that becomes right and it's imposes itself on reality.<br /><br />It occurred to me that God's value system would not be based upon man's. I look to Jesus to model God's values. Thus love is at the top and I choose social democracy and egalitarianism and so on because I think they are mandated by agope,</b><br /><br />Should the well-formed state and the well-formed metaphysical universe have the same structure, as Plato would have had it? <br /><br /><b>sure, thus we must have a government that strives to enable peace,freedom and justice,</b><br />Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-41501591891038626142017-08-28T11:50:42.655-07:002017-08-28T11:50:42.655-07:00True in theology too (as you are likely aware) ......True in theology too (as you are likely aware) ....feminist theologians tend to relational or co-sufferer images of God thus trying to subvert older characterizations of God based upon "dominance, hierarchy and linear understanding" in their field too.<br /><br />So, Joe, how about that? How would you answer that sort of fem-theological critique?<br /><br />In political terms, does your singular, top-of-the-hierarchy "TS" concept enable a Donald Trump? Or even worse, some actually competent dictatorial ruler of the "free world" in the future? This is not like you politically, of course not, but does the current US political sitch cause you to ponder any of your theo-metaphysical assumptions? <br /><br />Should the well-formed state and the well-formed metaphysical universe have the same structure, as Plato would have had it? <br /><br />K, why not?Mike Gerowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630695728013930638noreply@blogger.com