The Paradox of Creation

Guillaume de Vaulx, The Paradox of Creation. Theology of (De)nature and Physics of Worship in the 3ʳᵈ/9ᵗʰ Century Kalām and Falsafa, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 18 (1-2), pp. 304-332.

No one will be saved if all are not saved

Guillaume de Vaulx Doctor of Philosophy and IDEO member icon-calendar Tuesday December 12ᵗʰ, 2017 It is impossible to hold these three statements at the same time: 1) “God wants all people to be saved”, 2) “God shows people a path of salvation”, and 3) “Anyone who does not follow this path cannot be saved”. Either […]

Reason against reason

Guillaume de Vaulx PhD student at Paris-IV University icon-calendar November 3, 2015 Guillaume de Vaulx presented under the title “Reason against reason” a medieval Christian-Muslim polemic. The debate opposed the Nestorian bishop Isrāʾīl al-Kaskarī to Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Saraḫsī, one of al-Kindī disciples who the speaker suspects to be the author of Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s treatises. The […]