Anyone got any good anecdotes or little known facts about Heythrop College (positive ones preferably)? Let me know...
On another blog, FideCogitActio, some theists of a "classical" stripe (that's to say, like Brian Davies, Edward Feser) are criticisng the Evil God Challenge (or I suppose, trying to show how it can be met, or sidestepped). The main post includes this: In book I, chapter 39 , Aquinas argues that “there cannot be evil in God” (in Deo non potest esse malum). Atheists like Law must face the fact that, if the words are to retain any sense, “God” simply cannot be “evil”. As my comments in the thread at Feser’s blog aimed to show, despite how much he mocks “the privation theory of evil,” Law himself cannot escape its logic: his entire argument requires that the world ought to appear less evil if it is to be taken as evidence of a good God. Even though he spurns the idea that evil is a privation of good, his account of an evil world is parasitic on a good ideal; this is no surprise, though, since all evil is parasitic on good ( SCG I, 11 ). Based on the conclusions of se...
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Heythrop offers, through the University of London's International Programme, a self taught degree in theology that can be taken all over the world. They send you the materials, study guides, etc. at the beginning of the year, you study on your own, and at the end of the year you take the same final exams that students on campus take, which are graded by the same graders according to the same standards. (Birkbeck college offers a similar degree in philosophy). The International Programme has been around since 1858, and seems to have a decent reputation. It's also remarkably inexpensive.
Professor Law, what do you think about these programs? Do they have as solid a reputation as they claim to have?