[lockeliberty]

Upon further reflection, against the historical backdrop of the Gregorian/Papal revolution, it seems that the main source of contention is over the synthesis, whether the mediating factor is the church or the eternal logos. Perhaps I'm wrong. Cursory...yes, a false dualism...I'm not convinced.

[MarMema]

Ping for your comments...

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

...it seems that the main source of contention is over the synthesis, whether the mediating factor is the church or the eternal logos....

Earlier, you had stated the existence of several antitheses (plural) in the scriptures. Have you noticed however, that Synthesis is strikingly absent from the pages of scripture?

What fellowship has light with Darkness

"Either make the tree Good and his fruit good, or make the tree bad and his fruit bad" (please forgive me if i do not quote accurately)

. It seems that Special Revelation (Scripture) is calling upon the man to choose sides, and not attempt to synthesise.

[MarMema]

Appeal to revelation is not an essential trait of philosophy. It stakes its claim to credibility on universal laws of logic common to all rational men of goodwill. Thinking out the implications of the classic rational proofs for the existence of God enters significantly into such a pursuit of philosophy.

And yet in Russia we had Bulgakov, Berdyaev, and Lossky, perhaps Khomiakov too, for starters. This author has not looked far enough to the east. There is no excuse for this because in present-day we also have Solzhenitzyn and Florovsky, and I would say, Schmemann and Meyendorff.

[cornelis]

Dualism gives the . . . antithesis ontological status . . . a view of reality in which two earthly magnitudes are conceived of as standing in opposition to each other, and this opposition (antithesis) is read back ontologically into the very structures of creation

In your description above, I presume such a dualism should be considered false, i.e. the opposition is "read back ontologically" and it shouldn't be. Am I reading you correctly?

And if I may follow through, I take it that there are dualisms that are ontologically fixed--not read back--into creation.

I think some clarification will be needed as to kinds of dualisms. The relation of hot to cold is a kind of dualism that functions differently than the relation of creature to creator or between temporal and eternal or between immanent and transcendent etc.