Detachment Issues: A Dilemma for Beall’s Contradictory Christology

Page, Meghan D.

doi:10.12978/jat.2021-9.120413150004

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“…The underlying model of theological inquiry needs to be spelled out. 24 The lump gets bigger the more you chew.…”

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“…But one could imagine applying it towards conclusions along the devotional axis. 24 To be fair, there are models of inquiry, both broad [19] and specific [7,8,6,21,29,31] that describe reasoning from contradictions, though in other domains. I have my quibbles which (for now) I will keep to myself.…”

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“…This is somewhat related to Meghan Page's concern[24] that because FDE has no detachable conditional (a connective → such that p, p → q ⊢ FDE q) we are hobbled in our theological reasoning. Beall replies that detachable conditionals aren't excluded from the full story of Christ [4, §4.1.4.2-3], they just don't appear where they would cause trouble.…”

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Christian theology is a prolonged stare at what cannot be and yet is. God cannot become part of creation, let alone the specific part that is a particular human being. And yet.Part of the prolonged stare is asking how "the facts"-what is-can contradict "the rules"-which tell us what cannot be. The consistentizing strategy claims the contradiction is only apparent, arising from blind spots in our capacities to know and understand. Careful attention to these blind spots show how contradictions arise. Had we perfect vision, says this view, we see no conflict between the facts and the rules.The development of glutty logics-those where propositions can be both truth and false-allows for an alternative, contradictory strategy which doesn't avoid, or explain away, contradictions. This view, exemplified in this essay by Jc Beall's "contradictory Christology" [4], affirms certain contradictions as the best account of the confounding reality within our vision. Our reluctance to accept these contradictions stems from unspoken logical, rather than theological, dogma equating contradiction with absurdity. Jettison the dogma, and one can accept, without qualification, what apparently follows from the assertions of the ecumenical councils: that the individual, Christ, has the essential properties of both human and divine natures. As such:

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“…The underlying model of theological inquiry needs to be spelled out. 24 The lump gets bigger the more you chew.…”

Section: Inertness Againmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Inertness Againmentioning

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The Trinity

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2024

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The doctrine of the Trinity, proclaimed by Christians through the Nicene-Constantinople creed, is foundational to traditional Christian belief and worship of God. But is this doctrine logically coherent? How can there be three divine persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), each is God, and yet there is only one God? This is a fundamental question for philosophers, but theologians have additional questions. This Element addresses philosophical and theological issues concerning the Trinity: Hermeneutical and Logical problems, Personal Pronouns, Monarchy, Equality, the Greek vs. Latin filioque debate, Real Relations, Unity of Action, Self-Knowledge in the Trinity, and Simplicity. Based on my recent rediscovery of the sixth ecumenical council's (Constantinople III) clarifications of Trinitarian doctrine, this Element introduces Conciliar Trinitarianism and shows how it responds to the issues, including a resolution to the fundamental logical question. It also compares Conciliar Trinitarianism with Miaphysite, neo-Sabellian, Social, and other models of the Trinity.

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Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

Beall

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2023

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Apparent contradiction is common in traditional monotheism, and perhaps especially so in standard Christian theology given central doctrines such as the incarnation and trinity. This Element aims to chart out a very elementary but abstract framework through which such contradictions may be approached. This Element does not attempt to address the many options for thinking about contradictions in the face of logical entailment; it charts only a few salient abstract options.

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Detachment Issues: A Dilemma for Beall’s Contradictory Christology

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What Is the Aim of (Contradictory) Christology?

What Is the Aim of (Contradictory) Christology?

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Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

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