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John Wright's avatar

We have much the same program for the Anglican communion. The recent influx of Reformed background evangelicals seems to distort the tradition, at least from Richard Hooker’s embrace of a Christianized Platonism. If one accepts the Old Greek for the OT, it becomes evident that ‘Moses spoke Greek.’ The Lutheran apologetics that contrasted Hebrew and Greek and ‘apocalyptic’ vs Hellenism are just plain wrong. Paul’s ‘doctrine of God’ from whom, through whom, to whom are all things has an ‘exit and return’ structure similar to Platonism. Thanks for the post. I need to read your books!

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Andrew's avatar

Thank you for this article. It provided some clarity to some things I've been reading and mulling over lately. The biggest problem with nominalism, in my view, is that if there is no such thing as a universal nature in which particulars participate, how can the three Persons we worship possibly be one God? If you throw out Platonist (and Neoplatonist) metaphysics, you really can't have Christianity anymore.

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