(November 6, 2018 at 2:24 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Double post
If I'm reading you right, it seems to me that you're saying there is a core or essence of what Christianity really is. And that you know what that is, and that it's bad.
And that the good parts of Christian thinkers are good because they come from non-Christian sources.
So Aquinas labored mightily to fold Aristotelian thought into Christian theology. He changed Christian thinking and (after much debate) made Thomism pretty much the basis of Catholic thinking since that time. But according to your approach... you're saying that Aquinas isn't really Christian?
(Also to avoid trouble later on, I was maybe unclear when I mentioned Wittgenstein earlier. I didn't mean to say that he is a Christian thinker. Only that his use of the term "family resemblance" is useful when we talk about different kinds of Christianity. It is a way to avoid essentialism.)
