Philosophical Musings

Much time has been spent attacking the critiques of Natural Theology and the chief arguments for the existence of God from contemporary analytical philosophy. So this post will not be spent with those critiques. There is a charge made within continental philosophy which is not often responded to nor addressed within contemporary Anglophone philosophy. The charge of “ ontotheology” . This has its roots within the critiques of philosophy by Luther, in the Critique of Pure Reason by Kant, and most recently in the work of Martin Heidegger. The principle work in English responding to this charge in contemporary is Thomas Joseph White’s “Wisdom in the Face of Modernity”. This post will proceed in three stages. The first will be laying out what exactly is the charge of ontotheology and why it is a problem for philosophical theism. The second will be in explaining some forms of philosophical theism that this charge does hit its mark against and how devastating the blow is. The thi...