Background
Ostler was born in 1957 in Murray, Utah.
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Exploring Mormon Thought: Of God and Gods (Exploring Mormon Thought) Vol.3.
(Blake Ostler's anticipated third volume of his award-winn...)
Blake Ostler's anticipated third volume of his award-winning Exploring Mormon Thought series.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589581075/?tag=2022091-20
Exploring Mormon Thought: The Problems With Theism And the Love of God (vol. 2)
(Book by Ostler, Blake T.)
Book by Ostler, Blake T.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589580958/?tag=2022091-20
Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God (vol. 1)
(In this, the first volume of a planned series of works on...)
In this, the first volume of a planned series of works on Mormon thought, Blake T. Ostler explores Christian and Mormon notions about God. Written for both Mormons and non-Mormons interested in the relationship between Mormonism and classical theism, his path-breaking Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God is a critique of classical theism regarding some of the central concepts that have formed the Christian understanding of God. He deals with questions of traditional philosophical theology including free will and foreknowledge, the nature of God and Christology. The approach to these questions is from the analytic philosophical tradition and includes detailed arguments relating to the coherence of Christian belief, scripture and practice. However he recognizes that religious faith is far more a product of intimacy with the divine than of ultimacy of reason, more a product of relationships than of logical necessities. He provides an overview of the most influential Christian notions of deity, exploring themes and resources within this discourse that might be helpful to Latter-day Saint explorations. Also highlighted are various perspectives within Mormonism itself including a detailed analysis of Joseph Smith's Lectures on Faith and discussion of the thought of Orson and Parley Pratt, B. H. Roberts and John Widstoe. Earlier Mormon thought is demonstrated to have included a concept of God as a being in process. He suggests areas in which Mormon approaches to questions about free agency and God's omnipotence might suggest resolutions to some of the difficult issues that have troubled theologians and philosophers for centuries. For the first time ever Ostler formulates a systematic Mormon Christology.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589580036/?tag=2022091-20
Blake Ostler
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In each of his these degrees, Ostler graduated with honors.
Career
Ostler received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and Bachelor of Surgery in psychobiology in 1981 from Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University). He received his Juris Doctor as a William Leary Scholar from the University of Utah in 1985. He is a practicing attorney specializing in education law, commercial litigation.
Franchise law and litigation, construction law and litigation, property and development law and litigation educational law, employment law and intellectual property.
Ostler argues that God cannot know what acts a person will freely do in the future. Ostler has also published a short volume relying on continental philosophers in the existential tradition Martin Buber and Søren Kierkegaard.
He argues that it is a modern expansion of an ancient document. Ostler currently practices in Salt Lake City.
Works
book
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Exploring Mormon Thought: Of God and Gods (Exploring Mormon Thought) Vol.3.
(Blake Ostler's anticipated third volume of his award-winn...)
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Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God (vol. 1)
(In this, the first volume of a planned series of works on...)
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Exploring Mormon Thought: The Problems With Theism And the Love of God (vol. 2)
(Book by Ostler, Blake T.)
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Exploring Mormon Thought: Of God and Gods (Exploring Mormon Thought) Vol.3.
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