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Can God be free? /
Can God Be Free? is a penetrating study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free, and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Can God Be Free? is a penetrating study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free, and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely, and we have no reason to be thankful to God. for creating us, since he couldn't do otherwise. William Rowe proposes the need for some substantial revision in contemp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 173 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191513482 9780191513480 9780198250456 0198250452 1281346438 9781281346438 9786611346430 6611346430 |