Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

ISBN-13: 9781108995429 / Angielski

Jc Beall; Michael DeVito

Opis

This Element aims to chart out a very elementary but abstract framework to approach contradictions in Christian theology. It charts a few salient abstract options for thinking about contradictions in the face of logical entailment.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Tools, Terminology and Basic Ideas: 1. Entailment, contradiction and theories; 2. The threat of contradiction; 3. Outline of target abstract responses in general; Part II. Two Principal Examples: 4. One central example: incarnation; 5. Partial theology: responses to the incarnation; 6. Robust theology: responses to the incarnation; 7. Another central example: trinity; 8. Partial theology: responses to the trinity; 9. Robust theology: responses to the trinity; Part III. Towards Other Examples of Contradiction: Part IV. Some Common Objections to Glut-Theoretic Theology: Part V. Closing Takeaways: References.