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#327 Defending Classical Theism - John DeRosa

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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John DeRosa, author of One Less God Than You, explains what classical theism is, why the Catholic Church embraces it, and how to defend it against less noble visions of the divine. Cy Kellett: Does classical theism still work? John DeRosa next. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. Cy Kellett: One of the things we have to defend is the existence of God, but it’s not just that we believe that God exists and we have to defend that. There are things that we can say ...

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Does Classical Theism still work?

0:02.3

John DeRosa, next.

0:08.4

Hello and welcome to Focus,

0:09.8

the Catholic Answers Podcast for Living, Understanding,

0:12.7

and Defending Your Catholic Faith,

0:14.7

I'm Sy, Kelly, your host,

0:16.0

and one of the things we have to defend

0:18.2

is the existence of God.

0:20.3

But it's not just that we believe that God exists

0:24.1

and we have to defend that,

0:25.5

there are things that we can say about God.

0:28.8

And if you take the kind of collection of these things,

0:33.5

could call that Classical Theism.

0:35.7

Is Classical Theism still defensible

0:38.3

in the late modern world,

0:39.6

given all that has happened,

0:40.8

all the advances that have been made,

0:42.3

all that we know that wasn't known

0:44.4

in the Middle Ages or in the ancient times?

0:46.7

Very much so.

0:48.2

And so we invited our friend John DeRosa

0:50.9

to come here and explain what is Classical Theism

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