Description

• Title:
  Modeling Mystery
• Creator:
  Wood, William
• Description:
  The practice of model-building is very common in analytic philosophical theology. Yet many other theologians worry that any attempt to model God must be hubristic and idolatrous. A better understanding of scientific modeling can set the stage for a more fruitful engagement between analytic theologians and their critics. I first present an account of scientific modeling that draws on recent work in the philosophy of science. I then apply that account to a prominent analytic model of the trinity, Michael Rea and Jeffrey Brower’s “material constitution model.” I argue that modeling – whether scientific or theological – need not be understood as a hubristic enterprise. A model does not always try to grasp its target at all, let alone grasp it fully and completely. Even theologians who are committed to a strong doctrine of divine mystery can therefore find value in analytic modeling.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Scientia et Fides
• Date:
  2016.04.07
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016); 39-59;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 4 Nr 1 (2016); 39-59;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2016.007/8103
• Subject:
  Analytic Theology;
  Analogy;
  transcendence;
  trinity
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2016.007
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text