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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Publié dans:Religious studies
Auteur principal: Mawson, T. J. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Auteur)
Type de support: Numérique/imprimé Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
Dans: Religious studies
Année: 2005, Volume: 41, Numéro: 1, Pages: 55-69
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Morriston, Wes / Dieu / Liberté / Omnipotence / Libre arbitre
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
NBC Dieu
NBE Anthropologie
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Résumé: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
Référence:Bezugnahme auf "Are omnipotence and necessary moral perfection compatible? / Wes Morriston"
Contient:In: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412504007449