Philosophy of Theology
Explore how the great thinkers—from Plato and Aristotle to Kant and Hegel—shaped classical Christian doctrine. Master the metaphysical tools of substance, causality, and essence that define Thomistic thought.
Like Duolingo, but for Philosophy of Theology. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
22 levels across 3 sections, about 44 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Metaphysical Toolkit; The Classical Syntheses: Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas; and The Modern Crucible: Mechanistic Physics to Modernity. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Philosophy of Theology
- Substance designates what a thing exists as in itself fundamentally
- Accidents are perceptible qualities that rely on a substance to exist
- The Council of Nicaea used substance to affirm the Son's equal deity
- A creature's definition does not guarantee or cause its actual existence
- God alone is Pure Act whose very essence is to exist necessarily
- Creatures must receive existence continuously from an uncaused source
- Bread's underlying substance is replaced by Christ's body and blood
- The original sensible accidents persist miraculously without a host subject
- Christ's physical characteristics do not become sensory properties of the host
- Nature answers 'what an entity is' while hypostasis answers 'who it is'
- The Trinity is defined as one divine nature in three distinct hypostases
- The Incarnation unites two whole natures in one single divine hypostasis
- Realism holds universal human nature makes certain acts intrinsically good
- Nominalism views universal terms as mere linguistic conventions
- Under nominalism an act is good solely because God wills it, not by nature
- Parmenides claimed change is impossible because being cannot arise from non-being
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In metaphysical vocabulary, what are 'accidents'?
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Where Philosophy of Theology takes you
- 1
The Metaphysical Toolkit
- Substance, Essence, and Accident
- Act, Potency, and Causality
- 2
The Classical Syntheses: Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas
- The Platonic Heritage in Christian Thought
- The Thomistic Synthesis
- 3
The Modern Crucible: Mechanistic Physics to Modernity
- The Mechanistic Break: Descartes and Leibniz
- Kant and the Epistemological Barrier
- Hegel, History, and Contemporary Metaphysics
3 sections · 7 units · 22 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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