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God, the Divine, and the Divine Attributes
2023Abstract This chapter considers the place of God in euteleological theism. It argues that God is not to be identified with any entity in euteleology’s basic ontology—not with the Universe as a whole, or with reality’s principle of unity (its eutelicity), or with the supreme good which is reality’s telos, or with concrete realizations of ...
John Bishop, Ken Perszyk
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Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Focusing on God’s essential attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, being eternal and omnipresent, being a creator and sustainer, and being a person, I examine how far recent discussion has been able to provide for each of these divine attributes a consistent interpretation.
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Abstract Focusing on God’s essential attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, being eternal and omnipresent, being a creator and sustainer, and being a person, I examine how far recent discussion has been able to provide for each of these divine attributes a consistent interpretation.
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Religious Studies, 2015
Abstract It is standard within the Christian tradition to characterize God in predominantly masculine terms. Let ‘traditionalism’ refer to the view that this pattern of characterization is theologically mandatory. This chapter seeks to undercut the main motivations for traditionalism by showing that it is not more accurate to ...
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Abstract It is standard within the Christian tradition to characterize God in predominantly masculine terms. Let ‘traditionalism’ refer to the view that this pattern of characterization is theologically mandatory. This chapter seeks to undercut the main motivations for traditionalism by showing that it is not more accurate to ...
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2018
The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity.
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The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity.
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Journal of Religious Ethics, 2016
AbstractTheories of ethics that attempt to incorporate divine speech or commands as necessary elements in the construction of moral obligations are often viewed as vulnerable to a challenge based on the so‐called Euthyphro dilemma. According to this challenge, opponents of theistic ethics suppose that divine speech either informs one of a preexisting ...
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AbstractTheories of ethics that attempt to incorporate divine speech or commands as necessary elements in the construction of moral obligations are often viewed as vulnerable to a challenge based on the so‐called Euthyphro dilemma. According to this challenge, opponents of theistic ethics suppose that divine speech either informs one of a preexisting ...
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Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France, 1963
Chacun sait, qu'? la fin de l'?poque gauloise, le torques servait de pa rure aux femmes et d'attribut aux dieux (1). Aussi bien notre propos n'est-il pas de nous livrer ici ? une ?tude exhaustive des images de dieux au torques emprunt?es ? l'iconographie gauloise ou gallo-romaine, mais d'?tudier les rapports qui peuvent exister entre ce collier et ...
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Chacun sait, qu'? la fin de l'?poque gauloise, le torques servait de pa rure aux femmes et d'attribut aux dieux (1). Aussi bien notre propos n'est-il pas de nous livrer ici ? une ?tude exhaustive des images de dieux au torques emprunt?es ? l'iconographie gauloise ou gallo-romaine, mais d'?tudier les rapports qui peuvent exister entre ce collier et ...
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Divine Necessity and Divine Attributes
Abstract This chapter offers fuller analysis of metaphysical issues relating to God. It first considers the sense in which God is a necessary being and Newton’s argument, or rather lack thereof, for divine necessity. It then explains the thinking behind Newton’s claim that God is necessary but nonetheless acts freely.openaire +1 more source
, 2021 Spinoza and the Divine Attributes
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, 1971On the very first page of Spinoza's Ethics we find the perplexing definition of ‘attribute’: ‘By an attribute I mean what the understanding perceives in regard to a substance as constituting its essence’. Each attribute of a substance by itself thus constitutes the essence of a substance; if there are many attributes of the same substance, it does not ...
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