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How far do most Christians accept Plato's 'the Forms'?

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I asked a question on Plato's the Forms to Justin Welby (using films as an example of what might reflect God- after all, if Plato was correct, everything reflects something perfect and heavenly). I got no response from him, but this was what his secretary wrote: "I’m a bit rusty but recall that Plato considers that there is a perfect ’ heavenly’ model for everything we experience here. A former Archbishop of Canterbury who was a New Testament theologian, Michael Ramsey, suggested something more startling. He said, “God is like Christ and in him there is no un-Christ-like-ness at all”. Does that not stand the platonic ideal on its head? To expand that concept, it means that there is nothing hidden in the nature of the Almighty (whom we cannot see) which is different from the nature of Jesus as revealed or manifested to human beings. There are lots of other hints here and now: our appreciation of beauty, the sense of awe which both attracts and repels (see Rudolph Otto on “The Idea of the Holy”) but nothing compares with God as one of us. The opening words of St John’s Gospel and the Letter to the Hebrews are startling in their vision. The first employs the Greek idea of ‘Word’ reaching fulfilment in Christ, and the second refers to the culmination in Christ of a preliminary series of revelations. Very exciting." Is this the general belief of Christians? Aren't 'all things' met via Jesus (for instance, what pleasure counts as a 'Jesus' thing and what doesn't?)
Asked by Sehnsucht (1592 rep)
Jan 9, 2014, 10:57 PM
Last activity: Jan 10, 2014, 01:29 AM