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The Power of God : readings on omnipotence and evil / edited by Linwood Urban, Douglas N. Walton.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.Description: xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0195022017
- 9780195022018
- 0195022025 pbk.
- 9780195022025 pbk.
- ARCH YNDC 231.4 U72P
- BT133 .P68
Contents:
A modern statement -- Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- Problems of definition -- God does nothing from impotence, nor has anything power against Him / St. Anselm -- God can do the logically impossible / René Descartes-- Are those things which are impossible in nature possible for God? / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The Divine Power and the creature / Paul Tillich -- Some limitations on God's omnipotence -- God will not act wickedly / The Book of Job -- God though omnipotent is not a despot / T.C.Vriezen -- How the omnipotent God is said to be unable to do certain things / St. Thomas Aquinas -- On divine omnipotence / St. Peter Damian -- Whether God can make the past not to have been? / St. Thomas Aquinas -- God's absolute and ordained power / William of Ockham -- An overview of the issues : omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- Can it be proved that there is but one omnipotent being? -- The unicity of God / Duns Scotus -- Reply to Duns Scotus / William of Ockham -- Some omnipotent beings / Louis Werner -- Can God will what He has not willed? -- The properties of God / Baruch Spinoza -- Can God do what He does not? ; Whether God can do what He does not? / St.Thomas Aquinas -- God is omnipotent / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Can God create a stone too heavy to lift? -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George I. Mavrodes -- The logic of omnipotence / Harry G. Frankfurt -- The paradox of the stone / C. Wade Savage -- The paradox of omnipotence / J.L. Cowan -- The omnipotence paradox / Douglas Walton -- A Kenotic theory of the Incarnation / Charles Gore -- Omnipotence and human freedom -- The fall of Satan / St. Anselm -- God's causality / William of Ockham -- Some theorems of Fitch on omnipotence / Douglas Walton -- Freedom within omnipotence / Linwood Urban and Douglas Walton -- God's universal causality / Thomas Bradwerdine -- Omnipotence and the problem of evil -- Can God create a world in which all men always freely choose the good? / John Hick -- God, freedom, and evil / Alvin Plantinga -- Modalities in the free will defence / Douglas Walton -- The mystery of omnipotence is too deep for human reason / Charles Hartshorne.
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| ARCH YNDC 231.4 R822E The Existence and unity of God : three treatises attributed to Moses Maimonides / | ARCH YNDC 231.4 S642E Experience and God | ARCH YNDC 231.4 S669G The God that never was: a challenge to modern disbelief / | ARCH YNDC 231.4 U72P The Power of God : readings on omnipotence and evil / | ARCH YNDC 231.4 W527G The goodness of gods, | ARCH YNDC 231.4 W648N The nature of God : an inquiry into divine attributes / | ARCH YNDC 231.4 Y31T The timelessness of God / |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [253]-255.
A modern statement -- Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- Problems of definition -- God does nothing from impotence, nor has anything power against Him / St. Anselm -- God can do the logically impossible / René Descartes-- Are those things which are impossible in nature possible for God? / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The Divine Power and the creature / Paul Tillich -- Some limitations on God's omnipotence -- God will not act wickedly / The Book of Job -- God though omnipotent is not a despot / T.C.Vriezen -- How the omnipotent God is said to be unable to do certain things / St. Thomas Aquinas -- On divine omnipotence / St. Peter Damian -- Whether God can make the past not to have been? / St. Thomas Aquinas -- God's absolute and ordained power / William of Ockham -- An overview of the issues : omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- Can it be proved that there is but one omnipotent being? -- The unicity of God / Duns Scotus -- Reply to Duns Scotus / William of Ockham -- Some omnipotent beings / Louis Werner -- Can God will what He has not willed? -- The properties of God / Baruch Spinoza -- Can God do what He does not? ; Whether God can do what He does not? / St.Thomas Aquinas -- God is omnipotent / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Can God create a stone too heavy to lift? -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George I. Mavrodes -- The logic of omnipotence / Harry G. Frankfurt -- The paradox of the stone / C. Wade Savage -- The paradox of omnipotence / J.L. Cowan -- The omnipotence paradox / Douglas Walton -- A Kenotic theory of the Incarnation / Charles Gore -- Omnipotence and human freedom -- The fall of Satan / St. Anselm -- God's causality / William of Ockham -- Some theorems of Fitch on omnipotence / Douglas Walton -- Freedom within omnipotence / Linwood Urban and Douglas Walton -- God's universal causality / Thomas Bradwerdine -- Omnipotence and the problem of evil -- Can God create a world in which all men always freely choose the good? / John Hick -- God, freedom, and evil / Alvin Plantinga -- Modalities in the free will defence / Douglas Walton -- The mystery of omnipotence is too deep for human reason / Charles Hartshorne.
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