by Steve Thomason | Jul 17, 2014 | Personal Journal, postfoundational, The Trinity
Regarding Dualisms It seems that no matter where you turn in life you run into them. Dualisms. A dualism is when you find two polar opposite options to a single question that both have evidence for being correct. This is true in theology. Is Jesus God or human? Is it...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 17, 2014 | Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, How Do We Think?, Personal Journal, The Trinity
I believe the Holy Spirit moves through Twitter. I know that sounds weird, but the story I am about to tell is one that has happened often to me. Yesterday I started writing an essay about dualisms and how we can navigate between seemingly polarized opposites....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 10, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 2, 2014 | Personal Journal
I am taking six weeks off from working at the church in order to focus on writing my dissertation. Two of those weeks will be vacation and four of them will be full-time, hard-core writing. I met with my advisor yesterday and she gave me some good direction and...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
My recent reading of Ernest Simmons’ book—The Entangled Trinity—inspired me to go back and look at these first Thketches I did in December, 2011. They demonstrate how panentheism seemed to be the more likely model. These were my first attempts at Thketches,...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
Ernest Simmons showed a picture of a Moebius Triangle to depict the superposition of the persons of the Trinity. ((Simmons, Ernest L. The Entangled Trinity: Quantum Physics and Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. 152.)) At first I saw the mind-bending...
