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Platonism

No Plato, Yes Scripture: Why We Don’t Need Plato to Tell Us How to Understand Our Bibles

By Filings on Thu, 08/29/24
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“ ‘No Plato, No Scripture’—the second chapter of Hans Boersma’s Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew—is a clever title for continuing the Christian Platonist project. But how seriously should we take its underlying arguments?” - Christ Over All

Christian Platonism: Friend or Foe?

By Filings on Tue, 05/28/24
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“I am becoming concerned that we are witnessing, in the recent ascendency of the ‘premodern’ in contemporary evangelical literature, the triumph of Barth and ultimately of Gnosticism in the evangelical church” - Mark Snoeberger

Which Plato? Whose Platonism? Summarizing the Christian Platonism Symposium

By Filings on Thu, 09/08/22
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“Given these various definitions, some of which explicitly contradict any semblance of a unified definition, Christian Platonism is nearly impossible to define since its commitments have shifted over time. Yet there appears to be a core conceptual agreement of transcendence.” - London Lyceum

Plato Is Not the Point: A Critical Defense of Craig Carter’s Proposal

By Filings on Mon, 08/15/22
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“These five convictions Carter contends are derived from the biblical data and form the metaphysical convictions that accompany his twenty-five theses of what he means by trinitarian classical theism—which he uses interchangeably with Christian Platonism.” - London Lyceum

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