Hello, Dr. Cooper! I don't know if you'll see this, but I've been watching your channel off-and-on for about three years or so. Thanks to God and to you, I am finally going to go to a Lutheran church this Sunday and try to talk with their pastor. I've grown up in a Baptist household, but I have been investigating Lutheranism for a while now and I have felt drawn to it. Thank you for all you have done! Please pray for me!
Good on you. I grew up Nazarene and my wife Baptist (both of our fathers ministers in the respective denominations) I hope you find well the comfort of the purest Gospel you’ll ever hear, the Law most rightly applied, and a trust in the mysteries of the Sacraments as Gods acts for your benefit.
The basics of nominalism make sense to me but how it comes to be applied to theology has always confused me. I’ve just never grasped how you can make sense of a world without true essences. Will you be addressing this later on? If nominalism is true, then how does Christ take on a human nature because it seems to me that ‘human nature’ doesn’t exist in a nominalistic framework…
If we encounter a dog pre-fall or after returning to the garden and it consumes grass, yet our definition of dog indicates that it is categorically a carnivore…is it still a dog? However, in the less concrete: there are many loves, yet we don’t regard them as interchangeable. Yet, if we never question why the category, it is easy to miss that they all stem from and point to the Covenant (love before the word…as it were).
What? How was John Duns Scotus a nominalist? Just because he didn't believe in Platonic realism, doesn't mean he was a nominalist. Scotus directly opposed Peter Abelard's nominalist/conceptualist ideas. His thought is called" Scotistic realism" for a reason.
It wasn’t “may be”, the phrase talks about “probably”. And the emphasis here is actually on the word “probably”. “Probably” doesn’t mean “is”. Do you understand that you have just said a very modern and pretty relativistic thing?
One of the more lucid descriptions of nominalism/realism online. Not sure how anybody is able to convince themselves that realism is an accurate description of reality
One BIG nominalistic assumption taken as fact by the Christian church is that humans posses an immortal soul. If we discard that assumption, and that God truly can destroy both body and soul in hell, we find Jesus brought a different Gospel into the world. One that promises eternal joy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit forever. It also negates the idea that the unrepentant unbelievers would spend an eternal existence in torment, but rather an horrific, permanent demise.
As a viewer pointed out here, I mentioned Duns Scotus at the end when I meant to say Peter Abelard.
Hello, Dr. Cooper! I don't know if you'll see this, but I've been watching your channel off-and-on for about three years or so. Thanks to God and to you, I am finally going to go to a Lutheran church this Sunday and try to talk with their pastor. I've grown up in a Baptist household, but I have been investigating Lutheranism for a while now and I have felt drawn to it. Thank you for all you have done! Please pray for me!
Good on you. I grew up Nazarene and my wife Baptist (both of our fathers ministers in the respective denominations)
I hope you find well the comfort of the purest Gospel you’ll ever hear, the Law most rightly applied, and a trust in the mysteries of the Sacraments as Gods acts for your benefit.
Haha me too
Transgenderism is ultimately Nominalism taken to the extreme.
Yeah when humans get to define what things are such as what is a man or what is a woman, or male/female, we get to change those definitions if we want
@@Kenny_Doylethat sums the protestant revolution
The basics of nominalism make sense to me but how it comes to be applied to theology has always confused me. I’ve just never grasped how you can make sense of a world without true essences. Will you be addressing this later on? If nominalism is true, then how does Christ take on a human nature because it seems to me that ‘human nature’ doesn’t exist in a nominalistic framework…
That's why nominalism caused a revolution in church's doctrine and many scholars point it out as an essential part of modern thoughts
How had nominalism affected the reformers understanding of imputation?
The beginning of liberalism.
Great short description Jordan!
If we encounter a dog pre-fall or after returning to the garden and it consumes grass, yet our definition of dog indicates that it is categorically a carnivore…is it still a dog?
However, in the less concrete: there are many loves, yet we don’t regard them as interchangeable. Yet, if we never question why the category, it is easy to miss that they all stem from and point to the Covenant (love before the word…as it were).
What? How was John Duns Scotus a nominalist? Just because he didn't believe in Platonic realism, doesn't mean he was a nominalist. Scotus directly opposed Peter Abelard's nominalist/conceptualist ideas. His thought is called" Scotistic realism" for a reason.
Yes, you're right. I guess I did say Scotus, but that was definitely a misspeak. I meant to say Abelard
Anyone got the full replay link?
Very helpful, thank you.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck
But what is a duck?
@@11kravitzn Go take a walk in the park, it won't take long to figure.
@@cardenioscouse6238 Ah, but what is a park?
It wasn’t “may be”, the phrase talks about “probably”. And the emphasis here is actually on the word “probably”. “Probably” doesn’t mean “is”. Do you understand that you have just said a very modern and pretty relativistic thing?
Duck is not real loser
The early seeds of anti-realist, postmodern relatavism.
Great reasons to Convert to Orthodoxy
Intellectuals call it doginess.
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One of the more lucid descriptions of nominalism/realism online. Not sure how anybody is able to convince themselves that realism is an accurate description of reality
But when did jesus say that ideas exist in the mind of god, or gospel say that? What kind of theology is that?
Where would you suggest ideas exist?
One BIG nominalistic assumption taken as fact by the Christian church is that humans posses an immortal soul. If we discard that assumption, and that God truly can destroy both body and soul in hell, we find Jesus brought a different Gospel into the world. One that promises eternal joy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit forever. It also negates the idea that the unrepentant unbelievers would spend an eternal existence in torment, but rather an horrific, permanent demise.
Christians do not believe in the immortality of the soul. That is Greek thought. Christians believe in eternal life or eternal death under God.