Support our Tropes! Santi Tafarella on the Sensus Divinitatus and God the Dung Beetle
Posted by NT Wrong on July 28, 2008
Santi Tafarella asks, at Prometheus Unbound:
“Has Notre Dame philosopher and theologian, Alvin Plantinga, the author of Warranted Christian Belief (2000 Oxford), mistaken metaphor for what he calls direct knowledge of God? I ask this question because early on in his book, Plantinga made an admission that i think might be telling … “
Platinga’s admission is that he doesn’t ‘get’ poetry. And, via a discussion of God the Dung Beetle pushing the dung-moon across the sky, Tafarella asks whether Plantinga might be guilty of an old mistake — that is, mistaking one’s culturally formed perceptions for the thing-in-itself.
Have a read. In fact, have a browse through Tafarella’s whole blog, which began in June 2008. It’s startlingly good. And speaking of supporting our tropes …
Cor … those girls look like real tropers.
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santitafarella said
Wow, thanks for the nice comments about my blog. I’m going to England tommorrow for a few weeks with my wife and kids—but when I return, so will my blogging.
–Santi T.