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Thomas Talbott

Philosopher

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Thomas Talbott is a philosopher.

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Profession: Philosopher

About Thomas Talbott

[Wikidata] American theologian... | [Wikipedia] Thomas Talbott is an American philosopher, theologian, and academic, who is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. He is best known for his advocacy of trinitarian universalism.

Quotes by Thomas Talbott

“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who…

Compassion

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“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The…

Love

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“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power…

Fear

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“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to…

Forgiveness

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“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of…

Attributes of god

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“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature…

Darkness

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“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition…

Gender discrimination

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“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The…

God is love

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“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed,…

Forgiveness

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“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder.…

Believe in god

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“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become…

Communication

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“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying…

God forgives

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“The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways,…

Human race

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“An answer commonly given is that through suffering Jesus was perfected in his role as savior ; 254 and though that seems…

God is love

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“Though such an explicit contradiction is no doubt bewildering, Calvin’s final conclusion—namely, that the author of 1 John “does not speak of the…

Father son

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“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are…

Bible

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