From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 11:42:20 EDT
In the book PAUL TILLICH, by J. Haywood Thomas (1968), page 4, I note
that the author attributes three primary (?) ideas (claims) to Paul
Tillich. These are:
1. There is an infinite qualitative difference between the temporal and
the eternal.
2. There is a necessity of revelation. That is, it is necessary for the
Eternal to reveal itself to the temporal. This assumes the Eternal WANTS
to be known in some way, of course.
3. It is inevitable that there will be paradox when human language tries
to o express the divine.
On page 5, the author begins to tease out the problems of theology,
swinging at all times between two poles, tradition and the present
situation.
Idea #2 leads to my own uneasiness with ID. It seems that the ID
advocates agree with #2 (as I do) but then insist that at least part of
this revelation ought to be observable in nature (Johnson's "fingerprints
all over the material world."). But if these "fingerprints" are
observable only to trained ID scientists, of what use are they to the lay
Christian? At best -- an argument from authority (Behe says X, therefore
I believe). That's pretty weak.
John Burgeson (Burgy)
www.burgy.50megs.com
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