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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... so - and - so ' is always true , even if ' so - and - so ' is short for some self - contradictory description ; ( 2 ) that this page 3 5 is always true if ' so - and - so V.
... so - and - so ' is always true , even if ' so - and - so ' is short for some self - contradictory description ; ( 2 ) that this page 3 5 is always true if ' so - and - so V.
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... so ' is short for a logically con- sistent description of a feat ; ( 3 ) that if ' God does so - and- so ' is logically possible , then ' God can do so - and - so ' is true ; ( 4 ) that if ' God will do so - and - so ' is logically con ...
... so ' is short for a logically con- sistent description of a feat ; ( 3 ) that if ' God does so - and- so ' is logically possible , then ' God can do so - and - so ' is true ; ( 4 ) that if ' God will do so - and - so ' is logically con ...
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... so on do not apply to God . But pro- positions of the form ' God can do so - and - so ' change their truth - value with time . This involves a change in creatures , not in God . 17 19 20 20 21 So all the four senses of ' omnipotent ' we ...
... so on do not apply to God . But pro- positions of the form ' God can do so - and - so ' change their truth - value with time . This involves a change in creatures , not in God . 17 19 20 20 21 So all the four senses of ' omnipotent ' we ...
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The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Peter Geach. So all the four senses of ' omnipotent ' we have con- sidered turn out to involve both inherent logical difficul- ties and consequences fatal to Christian faith . But these are not difficulties ...
The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Peter Geach. So all the four senses of ' omnipotent ' we have con- sidered turn out to involve both inherent logical difficul- ties and consequences fatal to Christian faith . But these are not difficulties ...
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... So the problem is : if God wills such a course of events as we see , wills it simpliciter and not as a means to an end , can God be good ? There is no way out by supposing that God in creating made himself need his creatures and became ...
... So the problem is : if God wills such a course of events as we see , wills it simpliciter and not as a means to an end , can God be good ? There is no way out by supposing that God in creating made himself need his creatures and became ...
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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