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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... sense ; in another reading this expresses a self - contradiction . Lying and promise - breaking are logically ... sense of ' omnipotent ' is weaker than the second . But the third sense likewise is not maintainable ; for even if ...
... sense ; in another reading this expresses a self - contradiction . Lying and promise - breaking are logically ... sense of ' omnipotent ' is weaker than the second . But the third sense likewise is not maintainable ; for even if ...
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... sense to say of God : ' He could do this , but it is too wicked or silly for him actually to do it . ' ( 4 ) If some ... sense of ' omnipotent ' fails to hold good . - - It is ' necessary ' that God should have made promises , and ...
... sense to say of God : ' He could do this , but it is too wicked or silly for him actually to do it . ' ( 4 ) If some ... sense of ' omnipotent ' fails to hold good . - - It is ' necessary ' that God should have made promises , and ...
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... sense I explained . Aquinas's list of things we may not say God can do shows that Aquinas could not consistently ascribe to God omnipotence in any of our four senses . But Aquinas's list raises another difficulty : he says God cannot do ...
... sense I explained . Aquinas's list of things we may not say God can do shows that Aquinas could not consistently ascribe to God omnipotence in any of our four senses . But Aquinas's list raises another difficulty : he says God cannot do ...
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... sense about the future before trying to talk about God's know- ledge of the future . To talk sense about the future , we must understand prevention . There are no identifiable individuals pre- vented from coming into being . What is ...
... sense about the future before trying to talk about God's know- ledge of the future . To talk sense about the future , we must understand prevention . There are no identifiable individuals pre- vented from coming into being . What is ...
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... sense to say God causes the act of sin but not its sinfulness ; and we are not related to God as fictional characters are to their author . We may , however , expect problems about sin to be irresoluble for us , just because we are ...
... sense to say God causes the act of sin but not its sinfulness ; and we are not related to God as fictional characters are to their author . We may , however , expect problems about sin to be irresoluble for us , just because we are ...
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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