Claude Tresmontant was a French philosopher, Hellenist

Hellenism (Academia)

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 and theologian.

Biography

He taught medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy

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 and philosophy of science

Philosophy of science

The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...

 at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science. He was given the Maxmilien-Kolbe Prize in 1973 and the Grand Prix of the Academy of Moral and Political Science for his complete works in 1987.

Philosophy

Christianity

Christianity

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 is for him a "general theory of reality". It explains the existence of what is, compared to experimental science, which enables us to recognize its nature. He was sure that human "reason can prove the existence of God". For theology, based on God's word, we need to prove two premises:

1. There is a transcendental, absolute being, the creator of Heaven
   Heaven
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    and Earth
   Earth
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   , we can call God;
2. This being has spoken to us, revealed to us... (The history of creation and the sense of universe)

He finds reasons for God's existence in four analyses: astrophysical (why does space exist?), biochemical (Why do genes carry information?), genetic (why does genetic information increase?) and anthropological (why is there a human being?).
The Lord Jesus Christ brings us a new program of mind, compared to that one in our paleocortex (Christ in history).
He was afraid of modern Christian irrationalism, what he called "pathology of Christianity".