Foster's Theological Reflections

Lactantius appears to be working with the metaphysical categories of Stoic philosophy (i.e. relative dispositions) when he attempts to expla...

Lactantius contends that before God produced the world and other angels, he “created a holy and incorruptible spirit whom he called his son,...

The modern-day logician Alvin Plantinga skillfully has demonstrated the logical possibility that demons (i.e. unclean spirits or impious ang...

Social Implications of Acknowledging God’s Paternity Lactantius believes that the acknowledgement of God’s paternity radically affects so...

Therefore, God discharged the office of a true father. He Himself formed the body; He Himself infused the soul with which we breathe. Whatev...

Paul Tillich has offered an innovative critique pertaining to transcendent reality and the human experience of that which rational agents de...

There are a number of senses in which Latantius views God as a Father. First, he argues that God is a Father to humanity, his principal crea...

The Christian predecessors of Lactantius chiefly taught him that God is anonymous. Although these believers more than likely participated in...

One can readily understand the Greek rationale for linking Hermes with Thoth. Both gods were messenger divinities and both personae dramatis...

As demonstrated earlier, the pre-Nicenes universally espoused belief in divine innominability based on certain metaphysical assumptions and ...

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Another thinker, who believed that speaking of God non-metaphorically is a linguistic possibility, was Duns Scotus (1266-1308 CE). While apo...

Lactantius considers divine revelation immeasurably superior to human reason: “Even when he refers to the nature and reason of man, it is al...

Is it possible that Novatian employs the Aristotelian category of causal priority to outline the generative relationship evidently obtaining...

The Logos is an emergent, dynamic entity in Hippolytus’ system. He posits three progressive stages for the Logos that eventually becomes the...

Cleanthes of Assos (342-232 BC) was a philosopher and poet, who headed the Stoa from 262 BC onwards, after Zeno (its founder) died. [1] He ...

Cyprian argues that there is no salvation outside the church ( extra ecclesiam non salus ): “He can no longer have God for his Father, who h...

Lactantius was a theologian of revelation as opposed to reason. He was thus primarily apophatic in his theological orientation, contending t...

Scholars have made a number of arguments against predicating masculinity of God. Gender may be inextricably associated with a sexed body or ...

Thomas G. Weinandy is critical, to an extent, of Tertullian’s doctrinal formulation for three major reasons. While Weinandy believes that th...