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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · 14d

Staples has been really fascinating for me to read after all the PwJ folks.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Sep 3

Shot across the bow:
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Hegel as Alexandrian Christian

Or, Against False Piety

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Aug 30

But the full account of that Christo-logic is just what I attempted in my book, including the “dilemma of creation” implied by (1) Maximus’s point here about God never needing evil and yet (2) his other point that one would need to know God fully first to know creation rightly.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Aug 30

But Maximus goes on in that same text to argue for an identity indeed, the Logos is the logoi and the reverse. Here again one must trace the Christo-logic thoroughly to see that this other type of identity isn’t somehow not an identity. So the person here limits himself to options Maximus transcends

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Aug 30

Moreover, Maximus’s critique of “Origenism” in Amb 7 isn’t simply a negation of the absolute’s self-othering. It’s first of all a rejection of a *serial* and thus merely finite self and relation that, qua finite, is either perpetually insecure or a mere external contrast.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Aug 30

absoluteness—or as he says of the PhG in the preface to the science of logic, it establishes “the idea of the absolute.” Reading this the way one reads a treatise on being is a prolonged category error.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Aug 30

He doesn’t get Hegel right, since Hegel always thinks the Absolute’s “self-Othering” except as Trinity, and thence any relative difference through Christ. Also, the PhG is not a straightforward ontology; it is a phenomenology, ie an account of how finite reason experiences its own mediated..

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’m with you

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jul 1

Not close

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jun 25

Well, I wouldn’t say that. For an intro to Hegel himself, I’d start with Houlgate and/or Peter Hodgson (Hegel & Christian Theology).

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jun 25

For Rose, I recommend the following and in this order: Mourning Becomes the Law, Dialectic of Nihilism, The Broken Middle, Hegel Contra Sociology, Love’s Work—that’s a good start!

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just did, ya dopes

Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’m in the (Catholic) news:

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Raising hell: Catholics debate church teaching on eternal punishment

The debate over hell and universal salvation has heated up. Pope Francis and some Catholic scholars and theologians have addressed God's infinite mercy and t...

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · Jun 17

Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Jun 10

I honestly didn’t intend to write this, but I ended up spending all day doing so. Just couldn’t shake it.
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Plea for Palestine - Still

Over a year ago I published my only “political” post to date. It was really a memoir of my own experience in Israel/Palestine nearly twenty years ago. I make no apologies for wading into politics. The...

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · May 26

Some of what I’ve up to lately:

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A Round-Up of Recent Offerings

Several installments lie on the horizon for us here.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · May 14

I’m here for it and putting this in my basket

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · May 13

Damn looks great

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jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · Apr 26

Ut Unum Sint

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 25

“And I won’t admit I ever didn’t.”

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 24

Extremely lucid. Hell, I learned some things about my own work!
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Crisis of a House Divided

Jordan Wood and the End of the Ressourcement Thomist Settlement

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 24

I’d add IV.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 22

His anti-Hegel invective is so passé.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 22

Yep.

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Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social · Apr 19

Co-sign, and not just about the thread but also about the book. Get it asap.

Andrew Rillera @andrewrillera.bsky.social · Dec 5

The NT does not identify & describe God as the one "who ultimately crucified Jesus," but rather as the God "who raised Jesus from the dead.”

Acts 5:30; Rom 4:24; 6:4; 8:11; 10:9; 1 Cor 6:14; 15:15; 2 Cor 4:14; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:20; Col 2:12; 1 Thess 1:10; Heb 13:20; 1 Pet 1:21.🧵

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