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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... things , and omnipotence , or power to do everything . To say ' God can do everything ' may be only what Hobbes calls Pious Intention ; but we shall be concerned with attempts to read it as Philosophical Truth . Christians are committed ...
... things , and omnipotence , or power to do everything . To say ' God can do everything ' may be only what Hobbes calls Pious Intention ; but we shall be concerned with attempts to read it as Philosophical Truth . Christians are committed ...
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... thing which its maker cannot destroy is a logically possible feat , a feat some creatures do perform ; but whether we say that God cannot perform this feat or that he can , there turns out to be some logically possible feat which God ...
... thing which its maker cannot destroy is a logically possible feat , a feat some creatures do perform ; but whether we say that God cannot perform this feat or that he can , there turns out to be some logically possible feat which God ...
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... things as would amount to breaking the promise , even though in them- selves they are logically possible ; and if we say God cannot make promises , then again the fourth sense of ' omnipotent ' fails to hold good . - - It is ' necessary ...
... things as would amount to breaking the promise , even though in them- selves they are logically possible ; and if we say God cannot make promises , then again the fourth sense of ' omnipotent ' fails to hold good . - - It is ' necessary ...
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... 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 a number of things that God incarnate ...
... 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 a number of things that God incarnate ...
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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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