God talk

The gods and Babylon! Sumer the city of cities in which a lot of our modern civic centres and learning originally cam from (originated).   Where is Babylon now? Education, literature, religion, medicine, mathematics, weights and measures and food and farming is said to have impacted our societies. This is quite interesting. I an reading a book at the moment’ Babylon’   by Joan Oates and also been looking at the intro of the One, The Three and the Many… These city states prospered with their temples and cosmological ways of looking at things.   This book is quite old and would not have known about the age of Gök Tepe in Turkey, but this is also cosmological… This book points to the allusions that Gunton gave in his book.   He then went on to say about the disengagement of the West from this cosmology “In contrast … (page 19)…it is generally held in the modern world that there is a link between cosmic and social order”. He goes on to say… “indeed one could define modernity

The many do not really exist, except to be functions of the one' (The One The Three and the Many pages 17-18).0                 When looking at particulars and universals, this is a very helpful contribution from Gunton. As he goes on and says later on. The relations between the one and the many in various variations has touched the thought of every age. And although Gunton is speaking about 'Western philosophy' it ought not to be forgotten that it was through scholars such as Averroes that this rich learning passed to scholars such as Thomas Aquinas. The One and the Many are not categories that we can escape from very easily. The many being the finite side of the divide and the One being the infinite side of the divide. Hence we can take this a stage further and speak of faith and reason. We can speak in terms of using our natural rational faculties in trying to understand the deep mystery's of the universe and of God; but we can also speak of the infinite Go

  In history events are recorded as fact and then it is recorded in books. The knowledge of this event is then mediated to the historian. Even relational knowledge of a married couple is mediated. In other words, the couple have an argument and this knowledge passes to the brain via the emotions. As far as knowledge goes the point that is being made is that all knowledge is mediated to some degree. Hence it is important to start by looking at Christian and Islamic epistemology. To understand the world we live in, in terms of Truth, Goodness and Beauty; One cannot escape universals and particulars and how these relate. It is something that all philosophers and theologians need to wrestle with. Gunton gives us a helpful start; 1   'The question of the one and the many takes us to the very beginnings of philosophy and theology. The contribution it makes to the argument is most clearly set forth in the famous disagreement between Heraclitus and Parmenides. Our information about