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Divine omniscience and omnipotence in medieval philosophy : Islamic, Jewish, and Christian perspectives / edited by Tamar Rudavsky.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks B738.G6 R83 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Synthese historical library ; v. 25.
- Synthese historical library ; v. 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God--Omniscience--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
- God.
- God--Omnipotence--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
- Philosophy, Medieval--Congresses.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- God--Omnipotence--History of doctrines.
- God--Omnipotence.
- God--Omniscience--History of doctrines.
- God--Omniscience.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 299 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1985]
- Contents:
- Part one : Introductory
- Divine omniscience, omnipotence, and future contingents : an overview / Calvin G. Normore
- Nos ipsi prinvipia sumus : Boethius and the basis of contingency
- Part tow : Islamic perspectives
- Wrongdoing and divine omnipotence in the theology of Abu Ishaq an-Nazzam / Josef Van Ess
- Can God do what is wrong? / Richard Frank
- Divine omniscience and future contingents in Alfarabi and Avicenna / Michael E. Marmura
- Some reflections on the problem of future contingency in Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes
- Part three : Jewish perspectives
- The binding of Isaac : a test-case of divine foreknowledge / Seymour Feldman
- Philosophical exegesis in historical perspective : the case of the binding of Isaac / Jeremy Cohen
- Providence, divine omniscience and possibility : the case of maimonides / Alfred L. Ivry
- Divine omniscience, contingency and prophecy in Gersonides / Tamar Rudavsky
- Part four : Christian perspectives
- Divine omnipotence in he early Sentences / Ivan Boh
- Divine knowledge, divine power and human freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent / John F. Wippel
- The dialectic of omnipotence in the high and late Middle Ages / William J. Courtenay.
- Notes:
- "Papers presented at a conference held at the Ohio State University on March 3 and 4, 1982"--Page vii.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- CJS copy acc.# 205210
- ISBN:
- 9027717508
- 9789027717504
- OCLC:
- 10727075
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