Freedom, human and divine

In this paper I seek to show how God's freedom is not reduced or His power diminished by His inability to be less than perfectly good even though ours would be. That ours would be explains why it might prima facie appear to us that there is a "conceptual tension" between some of the c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Religious studies
1. VerfasserIn: Mawson, T. J. ca. 20./21. Jh. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
In: Religious studies
Jahr: 2005, Band: 41, Heft: 1, Seiten: 55-69
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Morriston, Wes / Gott / Freiheit / Allmacht Gottes / Willensfreiheit
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
NBC Gotteslehre
NBE Anthropologie
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper I seek to show how God's freedom is not reduced or His power diminished by His inability to be less than perfectly good even though ours would be. That ours would be explains why it might prima facie appear to us that there is a "conceptual tension" between some of the claims of traditional theism and reveals some interesting (well, to me anyway) differences between human freedom and divine freedom.
ISSN:0034-4125
Bezug:Bezugnahme auf "Are omnipotence and necessary moral perfection compatible? / Wes Morriston"
Enthält:In: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412504007449