Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Some very interesting thoughts …

… with a guest appearance by Dave Lull: Bill Vallicella on Cornelius Van Til: An open mind and heart – Anthony G. Flood. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

You have to read the whole thing. But I think this passage from Joel Harrington’s Dangerous Mystic is pertinent:

For Aquinas and Eckhart, all human perceptions, however logical, remained limited by the derivative and subsequently partial nature of our understanding. As Eckhart had explained back in 1303, [God]’ s knowledge is the cause of things, whereas our knowledge is caused by them. Consequently, because our knowledge is dependent upon the being by which it is caused, with equal reasoning it is itself dependent on God’s knowledge. Human reason, like humans themselves, was a creation, a dim reflection of God that could only point to the infinite, not truly or fully convey its essence. Rational thought was accordingly limited by its own very partial experience of the universe. In other words, any speculation about God and the infinite involves not just what former U.S. secretary of defense … Donald Rumsfeld once described as known unknowns but also unknown unknowns—countless realities beyond our ability to even imagine them."

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