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Month: March 2025

  • Causing the perpetuity of an accidentally ordered series

    March 11, 2025
    Metaphysics, Natural Theology, Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature

    Does Aquinas’s First Way conclude with an immovable first mover? The answer depends on whether we interpret the First Way as an exercise in natural philosophy or metaphysics. Either could work, and will produce philosophical fruit, but the resulting arguments grow ever different. →

  • The limits of the mediation of icons

    March 1, 2025
    Christian Theology, Icons

    While it is true that honor given to the image sometimes passes through to the prototype, this is limited by the nature of the image. If the image is dead, then it cannot mediate the honor of bilateral acts, such as prayer and worship, and any attempt to misuse them as such devolves into idolatry. →

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