Disputationes
Essays in Philosophical Theology by Dennis D. Bielfeldt

A blog on philosophical theology, metaphysics, Lutheran theology, and the intelligibility of being.
Investigations into the intelligibility of being, the grammar of theological language, and the metaphysical ground of truth.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

On an Infinite Regress of Causes

The general structure of cosmological arguments is well known: Starting from general features about the world (e.g., that there is movement)...

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Tremendum et Fascinans

Joel 2:1-18 speaks of the "Day of the Lord." This day is "a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! ...

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Theological Realism and Christology

One of our assumptions at the Institute of Lutheran Theology is theological realism , the notion that God exists and has a definite contour ...

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Thinking and Thanking

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger was fond of the seventeenth century Pietist phrase, “ Denken ist Danken, (to think is to thank).” H...

Monday, November 29, 2010

Theory Construction in Theology

For sometime now I have had the reoccurring thought that theology employs theories in much the same way as the natural sciences. Of cours...

Friday, September 03, 2010

Normativity and Theology

Some distinctions are so basic and simple that we denizens of North America tend, in general, to forget them. One such distinction is betw...

Monday, August 16, 2010

Luther: Justification and/or Deification?

In 1988 I attended my first Luther Congress. We met in Oslo, Norway. While there I met a young Finn named Risto Saarinen who gave me a c...

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