Class #8, 3/19/12

**Roster, etc.

**Questions about essay assignment....

**For tonight's discussion:

Divine Action--
------>Read carefully from Part 8:
------>------>Paul Helm, Providence:  Risky or Risk-Free?, pp 348ff
------>------>J.R. Lucas, The Vulnerability of God, pp 369ff
------>------>Cobb and Griffin, God is Creative-Responsive Love, pp 377ff
 
Writing due:
------>Something to write:  Can God be personal and involved with the world, and still be the omnipotent, all-knowing God?  Isn't this a contradiction?

**Some info about tonight's authors.

**For next week's class--3/26--
------> Readings from Part Nine, "God-Language":
------>------>Thomas Aquinas, The Doctrine of Analogy, pp 391ff;
------>------>Flew and Mitchell, The Falsification Debate, pp 394ff;
------>------>Paul Tillich, Religious Language as Symbolic, pp 398ff;
------>------>Rosemary Reuther, Sexism and God-Talk, pp 404ff.
------>Writing: 
------>------>"Reuther recognizes that God, as spirit, is neither male nor female, which are physical realities.  She speaks of the tradition of apophatic theology [see Maimonides], which emphasizes the unlikeness between God and creatures, and argues for inclusive language that is inherently metaphorical.  Review her points related to these issues and evaluate. [Question taken from text]"