Topics of Reality and Idealism

Kirk - Dr. Groza, can a realism take some of the aspect of idealism?
Adam - idealism is a form of realism
Kirk - What does idealism state exactly? I only know what I think the antithesis is of realism...
Adam -philosophical realism is the view that reality is ontologically objective and independent of our language, concepts, etc. Idealism is the view that reality consists in being percieved. Since God is always percieving, reality still maintains complete objectivity.
Kirk - ok. So to some degree trying to hold to a type of view between these two are i suppose futile?
or I guess would be vague and so I would have to say what exactly I see in each of them?
Adam - well, reality is either ultimately objective and real or it is not. Basically, your dealing with a correspondance theory of truth
Kirk - OK. I haven't taken Epistemology yet. So when you say that I am dealing with a correspondence theory of truth, what do you mean?
Adam - something is true if it corresponds to reality. So there is a reality. Thus, realism.
A reality vs. MY reality or OUR reality, which would be subjective expressions
Kirk - ok. So the way I saw it before was that Hell exist whether one knows it or not...
Adam - yes...that is an expression of realism. hell exists apart from whether you see it, believe it, or can talk intelligently about it.
Kirk - ok. Now could you say that reality for God is whatever he thinks (I suppose Idealism), whereas reality in the world corresponds with the reality of what God has ultimately willed to be (realism)?
Adam - No, reality in both cases is what is perceived. God's perception determines reality causally. Ours does not. God's perception is active...he sees what he wills. Ours is passive in that we percieve what God wills.