Providence and Evil: The Stanton Lectures 1971-2Examines the question: if the world is planned in all its detail by a mind, can that mind be called good, given the world's actual nature? |
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... God brings it about that so - and - so never happens ' is logically consistent , ' God can bring it about that so - and - so never 6 7 12 14 15 happens ' may be false if the thing in question vi Analytical Table of Contents.
... God brings it about that so - and - so never happens ' is logically consistent , ' God can bring it about that so - and - so never 6 7 12 14 15 happens ' may be false if the thing in question vi Analytical Table of Contents.
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The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Peter Geach. happens ' may be false if the thing in question already has happened . Can God do something wicked ? The Rev. Richard Price argues that wicked acts on God's part must not be logically impossible ...
The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Peter Geach. happens ' may be false if the thing in question already has happened . Can God do something wicked ? The Rev. Richard Price argues that wicked acts on God's part must not be logically impossible ...
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... two ways of taking it that bring it out trivially true ; but in a third sense it is obviously false , as we all in practice assume . 40 42 43 44 48 49 What is going to happen need not always have been X Analytical Table of Contents.
... two ways of taking it that bring it out trivially true ; but in a third sense it is obviously false , as we all in practice assume . 40 42 43 44 48 49 What is going to happen need not always have been X Analytical Table of Contents.
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
descriptions and mere gibberish and as logicians know | 12 |
happens may be false if the thing in question already | 17 |
development from another form it does not follow that | 20 |
opportunity and so on do not apply to God But pro | 23 |
An Irrelevance of Omnipotence | 29 |
actual state of affairs given e g his promises and what | 31 |
frustration To confuse the human nature of Christ | 37 |
prevention There are no identifiable individuals pre | 48 |
going to happen and human action may have made | 50 |
not see the future he knows it by controlling it | 56 |
responsible for it like a man watching a murder from | 62 |
C S Lewiss attempts | 68 |
presents the appearance of being the work of a mind | 71 |
Some human virtues can be ascribed in a transferred | 78 |
Original | 84 |
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