will the REAL pantheist please stand up....

Charles Ormsbee (ormsbee@MIT.EDU)
Thu, 1 Aug 96 13:48:58 EDT


At 01:56 PM 7/24/96 GMT, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:04:47 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>...Speaking of pantheism, rocks, and such, I have a couple of quiz-type
questions on this subject for you:
>>Charles
>
>Wow! Stinging criticisms! 
>I wonder if monotheism will ever recover!
>

???...ever recover from what?  Monotheism wasn't being criticized -- David
Bernard's scholarship and the assumptions of certain modal monarchians were.
I have nothing personal against Bernard nor anyone on h-f, but neither his
theology nor anyone else's (even mine) is above such criticism. Suffice it
to say that if one is to fling around the charges of "pantheism", or
"tritheism"  you'd better have something pretty substantive to back it up. 

And BTW, contrary to popular opinion, modal monarchianism does NOT hold
exclusive rights to the "Christian Monotheism" label.

Charles