{"id":317,"date":"2008-09-08T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2020-12-31T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:42:08","slug":"the-doctrine-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-doctrine-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctrine of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a 2300 word essay on one of the toughest subjects in philosophy and theology &#8211; the doctrine of God.\u00a0 Michael Palmer, author of the exceptional undergraduate philosophy textbook, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Question-God-Introductory-Commentary-Sourcebook\/dp\/0415223873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Question of God<\/a>&#8221; describes the concept of God as a huge confluence of concepts and ideas in philosophy and theology.\u00a0 Indeed, the concept of God within a philosophical school, is seminal to its outlook.\u00a0 This essay, after a short historical review, looks at the distinctive Christian conception of the Trinity where the ancient &#8220;One and the Many&#8221; problem (universals and particulars) is &#8220;solved&#8221; in a unique fashion.<\/p>\n<p>A PDF of the essay can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/The-Christian-Doctrine-of-God.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a 2300 word essay on one of the toughest subjects in philosophy and theology &#8211; the doctrine of God.\u00a0 Michael Palmer, author of the exceptional undergraduate philosophy textbook, &#8220;The Question of God&#8221; describes the concept of God as a huge confluence of concepts and ideas in philosophy and theology.\u00a0 Indeed, the concept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,33],"tags":[157,156,155],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-testament","category-old-testament","category-theology","tag-god","tag-monotheism","tag-the-trinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}