Philosophy Quote by Gregory Alan Thornbury

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“One of the required courses in school on this new world was the study of creation; the creation of the universe. This was unlike…

— Kenneth S. Murray

“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God…

— James W Sire

The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made…

— Marilynne Robinson

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

— Alister E. McGrath

“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical writer, who…

— Fleeming Jenkin

“struck him ‘like a revelation’ he said later, because it possessed ‘absolute, universal validity, independently from all human agency’.23 It was the moment he…

— Manjit Kumar

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“It was passages like these, where there is a clear mocking of literalist readings of Scripture, that had brought me back around to Christianity…

— Kalanithi

“Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus,…

— Nancy Pearcey

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

— Alfred North Whitehead