Reading Response
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One question that I have about todays reading is why on p. 96 the author states that the fundamental claim of any Christian natural theology is that there is some connectionalways needing further specificationbetween our everyday experience and our experience of the reality of God. What I want to know is why it needs further specification? It does not seem to me that it is or should be difficult to see connection between our everyday lives and the reality of God.
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I wonder about what the author states on p. 119 when he writes, The meaning of God is more ambiguous than Anselm is willing to allow, due to the limitations of the human intellect. I like Anselms ontological argument and find it helpfulbut it has to be considered according to a strict literal understanding of what is being said. I do not find it really ambiguous at all for it is essentially an assertion that God is the greatest of all things.
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