After Muhammad, the further development of knowledge about an active God had to wait for the 14th century Rennaissnce. During this period the Eastern Christians would inform Westerners about Plato's Dialogues. With Plato's dialogues, Nicholas of Cusa would produce the book, 'On Learned Ignorance.'(Click) This book says that human knowledge cannot be completed because God is beyond all opposites. Since God is beyond all opposits, we can must connect God to the universe with the attributes of God and the attributes of creatures. For instance God and the universe can be connected with the pair of opposites, 'infinite' and 'finite.' (e.g., one God is infinite and all creatures are finite). We find these opposites by studying the finite things in the universe, as suggested by Paul at Rom. 1:20, and determine whether a concept in the universe will coexist with its opposite as an attribute of Godt.
Beyond the work of Cusa on an active God, I found knowledge about an active God in the work of Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Gotrried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Hegel, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupetuis, Ben Franklin, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Cantor, Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer , Kenneth Burke, and Lyndon LaRouche.
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