ontology

Nov 2, 2018

Essence and Existence

In this week’s philosophy post I’ll be offering a snapshot of the Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas, who is referred to by Catholics as Angelic Doctor of the Catholic Church, owing to his significant contributions to Christian theology. Continue reading

Philosophy, Theology

Aristotle, Catholic church, Christianity, faith, Friday Philosophy, God, ontology, religion, Spirituality, Thomas Aquinas
Oct 26, 2018

The Ontological Argument

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post. Today I’ll be offering a snapshot of the life and thought of Saint Anselm, who was an important philosophical theologian of the Medieval period, and produced an interesting argument for the existence of God. Continue reading

God, Philosophy, Theology

Catholic church, catholicism, Christianity, faith, God, Medieval Period, Medieval philosophy, ontological argument, ontology, religion, Saint Anselm
Jan 12, 2018

The Aseity of God

My greatest fascination in this life is with the area of theology known as ‘divine ontology’ — the nature of God’s being. I actually feel quite excited whenever I direct my attention towards this subject area and ponder the immensity of the universe and what this indicates in relation to its creator. Perhaps the one Continue reading

Book Extracts

aseity, Christianity, Doctrine, faith, God, metaphysics, ontology, Panentheism, Philosophy, religion, Spirituality, Theology
Oct 24, 2016

Does God Have Foreknowledge?

The problem with claiming God has ‘foreknowledge’ is that it implies all future events are already determined. This would only be the case in a kind of clockwork universe where cause leads to effect and nothing can change the wheels that have been set in motion, presumably in the first moment of creation, as those Continue reading

Doctrine, Panentheism

Christianity, divinity, faith, foreknowledge, God, ontology, reality, Theology
Feb 7, 2012

God in Inanimate Objects

It is easy to see how God is active in living creatures, but it is perhaps rather harder to envisage what ‘God is doing’ in the case of inanimate objects, like tables or books. When I look at a table and investigate its nature, an obvious question arises – is God making the table be, Continue reading

Book Extracts

cosmos, divine, faith, God, infninity, omnipresence, ontology, Philosophy, religion, table, Theology

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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
I’m a philosopher and author living in the United Kingdom. On this blog, I write about matters of philosophy and religion and share a variety of personal articles.

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Essence and Existence

The Ontological Argument

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Does God Have Foreknowledge?

God in Inanimate Objects

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