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GOD and EVIL

by DAVID BIRNBAUM

David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica Philosophy Theory Summa Metaphysica Books: Cover: God And Evil. See also David Birnbaum Quest for Potential, Theory of Everything metaphysics Unifying Science & Religion.

David Birnbaum’s God and Evil is a major philosophical study which systematically confronts the philosophical problem of evil, and the Holocaust in particular. It presents an extensively researched and comprehensive review of the subject. In a clearly presented and readable exposition, Birnbaum then proposes an original and powerful formulation. Combining modern and classic, rationalist and mystic themes, Birnbaum’s proposed solution to the ancient problem of evil is perhaps the most elegant to appear in modern times.

Anchored biblically and philosophically, Birnbaum’s formulation proposes that two paths lie before humankind: the path of dependence on God, which while leading to ultimate bliss, is humanly unsatisfying and unfulfilling. And the second path, that of maximum potential, in which the individual achieves fuller freedom and responsibility; a path fraught with peril, although ultimately more potentializing.

According to Birnbaum’s paradigm, Quest for Potential drives Man and god and the Cosmos. Potential is the nexus. God and Potential is juxtaposed against Man of Autonomy, Freedom and Potential.

Through proceeding from a Jewish context, Birnbaum’s compelling presentation and original synthesis will be of considerable value to adherents of all Western religious. God and Evil has been acclaimed by philosophers and theologians of all faiths.

This philosophically exciting work has generated very considerable attention. It has been widely reviewed, has been selected as a Main Feature Selection of The Jewish Book Club, has already been assigned as a course text at major universities around the world, and has been critically acclaimed as “the best book in print on the subject.”

God and Evil: Religious Man (1988) is the first of three books in Birnbaum’s landmark three-volume Summa Metaphysica series crafted over a twenty-six year period.

In Book #1 of the series, Birnbaum introduces the concepts of Infinite (Diivine) Quest for Potential (Q4P), as well as God of Potential.

In Book #2 God and Good: Spiritual Man (2005) Birnbaum scuplts the concepts of Cosmic Womb of Potential as well as the concepts of Complexification (C+) and Infinite Divine Extraordinariation (E+). The concept Potential Point is also in-the-mix.

A separate section, Direction, is devoted to introducing the author's fleshed-out 'cosmic equation/formula', as well as directionality of the universe.

In Book #3 The Transcendent Dynamic: Secular Man (2014) Birnbaum builds-out his construct of C+ Complexification, the middle piece of his formula, as well as his new paradigm Evolution hypothesis, a fusion of Potentialism and Quantum Mechanics.

The Summa series reshapes the contours of metaphysics, science, philosophy, and theology.

David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica philosophy | Summa Metaphysica Book 1 Back cover. A Major Work in the Philosophy of Relgion

GOD and GOOD

by DAVID BIRNBAUM

David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica philosophy | Summa Metaphysica Books 2 Back cover. God and Evil. The Quest for Potential (Q4P), Theory. The infnite divine extraordinarination paradigm

Summa Metaphysica proposes a comprehensive and integrated metaphysical structure – a new paradigm.

Summa I: God and Evil: Religious Man (published 1988) and Summa II: God and Good: Spiritual Man (first launched 2005 online) comprise Birnbaum’s Summa Metaphysica series. The author has proposed that one fundamental concept – and one fundamental concept alone – Quest for Potential (recursive to the infinite power) – ignited – and drives – the cosmos – and the integral infinite divine.

Building upon his 1988 treatise, in Summa II: God and Good:   Spiritual Man (17 years later) the author lays out his overarching metaphysical structure in very significantly greater scope, depth, breadth and texture.

The theory lexicon custom-crafted by the author for Potentialism Theory will include his new terms: C+ = Complexification, and E+ = Extraordinariation

In the mix, the author's iconic formula Q4P > C+ > E+ is introduced. Significant attention is given in Summa II to the final component E+ (Extraordinariation).

In a focused section 'Direction', the author sketches out a clear 'direction of the universe' - a subject which has been in major contention in philosophical, scientific and metaphysics circles since the respective fields began.

Summa III: The Transcendent Dynamic: Secular Man offers a metaphysics for ‘Everyman’ – de-linked from any spirituality or religious aspects. It might best be classified as ‘scientific metaphysics’. It Is anchored In a creative finesse of science and logic.  

Birnbaum’s paradigm is non–linear, as opposed to the linearity of the great bulk of Western philosophy. It is non–circular, as opposed to the circularity of much of Eastern philosophy. Rather, Birnbaum’s paradigm is what the author refers to as a “spiral/reflexive” dynamic (elucidated in the text). The author proposes that this Quest for Potential paradigm more elegantly explains the dynamics of the cosmos – and of life, in particular – than alternate propositions.

According to Birnbaum, only the full plethora of potentials – and the quest thereof – could have ignited the cosmos. The combined potentials for love, life, intellectuality, spirituality and, indeed, for an infinitely Perfect Divine, ignited, birthed, nurtured, and projected the cosmos onward on its quest towards infinity. ‘Extraordinariation,’ according to the author, is the overarching goal.

Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa Theologica c. 1273 within a Christian context. The Summa Metaphysica series, proposing an original, dynamic, overarching, and integrated metaphysics, is crafted within a Jewish context seven hundred years later.

 

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The Transcendent Dynamic

by DAVID BIRNBAUM

David Birnbaum Summa Metaphysica philosophy | Summa Metaphysica Book 3. Quest for Potential (Q4P), Secular Man. The Transcendent Dynamic. Infinite Potential & Extraordinariation

Summa Metaphysica proposes a comprehensive and integrated metaphysical structure – an original and powerful new paradigm. The author proposes that one fundamental concept – and one fundamental concept alone – Quest for Potential (recursive to the infinite power) – ignited – and drives – the cosmos.

Summa I: God and Evil: Religious Man (published 1988 by Ktav Publishing, NJ) develops the theme within a religious context.

Building upon his 1988 treatise, the author moves on to a spiritual context. In Summa II: God and Good: Spiritual Man (17 years later) the author lays out his overarching metaphysical structure in very significantly greater scope, depth, breadth and texture.

The theory lexicon custom-crafted by the author for Potentialism Theory will include - aside from Summa I's Q4P = Infinite Quest for Potential - two new terms: C+ = Complexification, and E+ = Extraordinariation

In the mix, the author's iconic formula Q4P > C+ > E+ is introduced. Significant attention is given in Summa II to the final component E+ (Extraordinariation).

In a focused section 'Direction', the author sketches out a clear 'direction of the universe' - a subject which has been in major contention in philosophical, scientific and metaphysics circles since the respective fields began.

Summa III: The Transcendent Dynamic: Secular Man (2014) lays-out the Potentialism metaphysics for Secular Man – delinked from any spirituality or religious aspects. The metaphysics is anchored in a creative finesse of science and logic.

Birnbaum’s paradigm is non–linear, as opposed to the linearity of the great bulk of Western philosophy. It is non–circular, as opposed to the circularity of much of Eastern philosophy. Rather, Birnbaum’s paradigm is what the author refers to as a “spiral/reflexive” dynamic (elucidated in the text). The author proposes that this Quest for Potential paradigm more elegantly explains the dynamics of the cosmos – and of life, in particular – than alternate propositions.

According to Birnbaum,

“The cosmic goal is profound

Quest for Potential is probing and searching for

...the elusive Extraordinariation ( E+ )

ultimate –

grandeur…elegance…beauty…symmetry…fulfillment....
consciousness…harmony…artistry…symphony…spirituality...
perfection…humanitarianism…romancing…love…parenting...meaning...altruism…mercy…

– plus possibilities and potentials as yet not precisely known either to us

or

even to the cosmic driver, Quest for Potential itself”

Finally, in a separate section Evolution, the author proposes a new paradigm hypothesis - for Evolution itself. Again, rejecting reliance on randomness, the author parlays his core formulation of Q4P > C+ > E+. The lucid and powerful evolution hypothesis presented is a fusion of Summa Theory (1988, 2005 and herein) with the Quantum Mechanics/messaging of MIT's Seth Lloyd (elucidated 2006).

 

 

 

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