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Omnipotence and other theological mistakes / Charles Hartshorne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York, c1984.Description: xi, 144 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0873957709
  • 9780873957700
  • 0873957717 (pbk.)
  • 9780873957717 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 231 H335O
LOC classification:
  • BT102 .H362 1984
Contents:
Six common mistakes about God. The mistakes briefly presented ; What went wrong in classical theism ; The principle of dual transcendence -- The physical and the spiritual. Materialism and dualism in Greek and Medieval thought ; Plato's world soul: The mind-body analogy for God ; Male bias in theology ; Creation from nothing, magic, and the tyrant conception of God ; Mind or soul as creative of its body ; Psychicalism and the universality of love -- Creation through evolution. Evolution and belief in God ; Evolution, chance, and natural law ; Darwin's mistake ; Chance, freedom, and the tyrant idea of God ; God takes chances with free creatures ; The religious opposition to evolution ; God "Makes things make themselves" ; Creation neither out of nothing nor out of matter ; Value and sympathy as the keys to power: The final mystery ; Psychicalism and evolution ; The perils of a high level of mind and freedom ; An ornithologist who opposed evolution -- Equal love for self and other, all-love for the All-Loving. The moral argument against heaven and hell ; Abortion and the nonabsoluteness of personal identity ; Identity, nonidentity, and the primacy of love ; Self-identity as attribute of God ; The present condition of humankind ; A requirement for ethical judgments ; Religion and philosophy ; Is God selfish? ; Divine love as the meaning of life ; Why there is human wickedness ; Nuclear arms ; God and the universe once more.
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On spine: Omnipotence & other theological mistakes.

Includes indexes.

Six common mistakes about God. The mistakes briefly presented ; What went wrong in classical theism ; The principle of dual transcendence -- The physical and the spiritual. Materialism and dualism in Greek and Medieval thought ; Plato's world soul: The mind-body analogy for God ; Male bias in theology ; Creation from nothing, magic, and the tyrant conception of God ; Mind or soul as creative of its body ; Psychicalism and the universality of love -- Creation through evolution. Evolution and belief in God ; Evolution, chance, and natural law ; Darwin's mistake ; Chance, freedom, and the tyrant idea of God ; God takes chances with free creatures ; The religious opposition to evolution ; God "Makes things make themselves" ; Creation neither out of nothing nor out of matter ; Value and sympathy as the keys to power: The final mystery ; Psychicalism and evolution ; The perils of a high level of mind and freedom ; An ornithologist who opposed evolution -- Equal love for self and other, all-love for the All-Loving. The moral argument against heaven and hell ; Abortion and the nonabsoluteness of personal identity ; Identity, nonidentity, and the primacy of love ; Self-identity as attribute of God ; The present condition of humankind ; A requirement for ethical judgments ; Religion and philosophy ; Is God selfish? ; Divine love as the meaning of life ; Why there is human wickedness ; Nuclear arms ; God and the universe once more.

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