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Omnipotent,
Omniscient,
Omnibenevolent
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Should The Attributes Of God Be Understood As Subject To The Limits Of Logical Possibility Or Divine Self-Limitation?
Descartes view was that logic s c...,
Most christian thinkers reject de...,
Christian scholars like aquinas a...
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Have Boethius, Anselm Or Swinburne Successfully Resolved Problems Connected With God's Attributes And Human Free Will?
Boethius and anselm argue that go...,
God still knows our choices with ...,
The timeless god described by boe...
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Which Understanding Of The Relationship Between God And Time (That Of Boethius And Anselm Or Swinburne) Is The Most Useful?
Boethius and anselm each claim th...,
If the view of boethius and ansel...,
There s the problem of whether a ...
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The Omnibenevolence And Justice Of God
The christian understanding of go...,
The god of the bible s moved by t...,
I long to redeem them but they sp...
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Is It Possible, Or Necessary, To Resolve The Apparent Conflicts Between The Traditional Attributes Of God?
A who s infinite in power in know...,
The idea of god having a range of...,
Argues that this it s a mystery k...
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Swinburne's View Of A God In Time
If god s timeless then he can t b...,
Their argument s that love can t ...,
Richard swinburne writes that the...
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Anselm's Four-Dimensionalist Approach To The Timelessness Of God
Anselm took up boethius ideas of ...,
Anselm s view contrasts with a vi...,
A four dimensionalist view of tim...
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Boethius And The Consolation Of Philosophy
Took up the problem of god s omni...,
Boethius was worried about the pr...,
How can god foreknow that these t...
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God As Timeless In The Thinking Of Augustine And Aquinas
Augustine considered the question...,
For augustine the problem was at ...,
Augustine and aquinas both wrote ...
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The View That God's Everlasting (Sempiternal)
One problem s that it seems to li...,
Some scholars have taken the view...
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The View That God Is Timeless (Atemporal)
Augustine boethius anselm aquinas...,
God s omnipotence isn t threatene...,
People who support the idea that ...
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God’s Relationship With Time
Two main views god s timeless out...,
Affects ideas such as omniscience...
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What Does It Mean To Say That God Is Omniscient?
Most understand the omniscience o...,
If god s omniscient his knowledge...,
When attributed to god is also cl...
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Perhaps Total Omnipotence Is Not A Great Quality, And God Should Be Understood As "Unsurpassably Great" Rather Than Totally Powerful
An whitehead and charles argued t...,
Hartshorne argues that total powe...,
For hartshorne it s important for...
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Perhaps Problems With The Idea Of God's Omnipotence Are An Issue Of Religious Language
Macquarrie and other thinkers emp...,
Following macquarrie argues there...
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Perhaps God Deliberately Limits His Own Power For Our Benefit
Peter vardy suggests that god s i...,
Suggests that god created the uni...,
To call god therefore is to recog...
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Perhaps Omnipotence Means That God Can Do Everthing That Is Within His Own Nature, And Which Is Logically Possible
In the abraham story from genesis...,
Aquinas argued that god s complet...,
Aquinas saying that god can do an...
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Perhaps Omnipotence Means That God Can Do Absolutely Anything, Including The Impossible And The Self-Contradictory
Descartes concluded that god can ...,
For descartes god could be capabl...,
God can do anything but logical c...
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Introduction
In the hindu tradition one god ca...,
In the tradition the oneness of a...,
Christian understanding of the na...
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The Idea Of Divine Power
It involves being able to do anyt...,
It would be impossible for god to...,
The creation stories and god said...
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