God, modality, and morality / William E. Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, William E., 1940- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

God (Christianity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 369 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William E. Mann presents a philosophically defensible conception of the deity found in the Abrahamic religions. The book draws insights from such figures as Augustine, Philo, Aquinas, Leibniz, and contemporary philosophers. Unlike all other beings, God is perfect and simple. Simplicity entails that God has no physical or metaphysical parts or temporal stages. Perfection entails that God is immutable, omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly good, having no equals or weaknesses. The book's chapters defend the coherence of these claims against various criticisms.

Contents:

Divine attributes

Divine simplicity

Simplicity and immutability in God

Immutability and predication what Aristotle taught Philo and Augustine

Epistemology supernaturalized

Divine sovereignty and aseity

Omnipresence, hiddenness, and mysticism

Necessity

Modality, morality and God

God's freedom, human freedom, and God's responsibility for sin

The best of all possible worlds

Theism and the foundations of ethics

The metaphysics of divine love

Jephthah's plight Moral dilemmas and theism

The guilty mind

Piety lending a hand to euthyphro

Hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-027316-X

0-19-937363-9

0-19-937077-X

OCLC:

905853981