Describing gods : an investigation of divine attributes / Graham Oppy
- Author:
- Oppy, Graham, 1960-
- Published:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 326 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Preliminaries -- 1.1.The concept of God -- 1.2.Conceptions of God -- 1.3.Divine attributes -- 1.4.Taxonomy -- 2.Infinity -- 2.1.Introductory considerations -- 2.2.God and infinity -- 3.Perfection -- 3.1.Conceptions of perfection -- 4.Simplicity -- 4.1.Gale's discussion -- 4.2.Kretzmann's defence -- 4.3.Truth-making -- 4.4.Some further questions addressed -- 5.Eternity -- 5.1.Introductory considerations -- 5.2.Stump and Kretzmann -- 5.3.Leftow -- 5.4.Craig -- 5.5.Swinburne -- 5.6.Concluding observations -- 6.Necessity -- 6.1.Some initial considerations -- 6.2.Leftow -- 6.3.God and abstract objects -- 7.Fundamentality -- 7.1.Ground -- 7.2.Cause -- 7.3.End -- 7.4.Value -- 7.5.Permanence -- 7.6.Concluding remarks -- 8.Omni-attributes -- 8.1.Omnipotence -- 8.2.Omniscience -- 8.3.Omnipresence -- 8.4.Other omni-attributes -- 9.Freedom -- 9.1.What is freedom? -- 9.2.How might God be free? -- 9.3.Threats to divine freedom? -- 9.4.Divine threats to human freedom -- 10.Incorporeality -- 10.1.Preliminary remarks -- 10.2.Location -- 10.3.Mind -- 10.4.Action -- 10.5.Causation -- 10.6.Divine action -- 10.7.Concluding remark -- 11.Value -- 11.1.Goodness -- 11.2.Divine goodness -- 11.3.Beauty -- 11.4.Divine beauty -- 11.5.Truth -- 11.6.Concluding remarks -- 12.Concluding remarks -- 12.1.Attribution -- 12.2.Modifiers -- 12.3.Fundamental answers -- 12.4.In God's image -- 12.5.Final victory -- 12.6.Last word.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781107087040 (hardback : alk. paper)
110708704X (hardback : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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