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TheoLogica, 2023 Should an omnipotent being be able to limit its own power? Along with Swinburne, Dean Zimmerman answers in the affirmative. My intuitions push in the opposite direction. The ability to limit one's own power constitutes a vulnerability.
Samuel Lebens
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil and a Penal Colony Theodicy
Religions, 2023 Sterba argues that God would be ethically bound to implement a set of exceptionless evil prevention requirements. However, he argues that the world as we know it is not as it would be if God were applying them.
Gerald Harrison
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Divine attributes in a trinitarian key
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 The traditional treatment of the divine attributes in theological discourse has been criticised for what some scholars regard as the influence of Greek philosophy, which they argue may result in distorted concepts of the divine.
Johannes P. Deetlefs
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God’s Omnipotence: A Literary Investigation [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The omnipotence of God can be defined as the perfect ability of God to do all things that are consistent with the divine character. Open theists see God as one who is influenced as God interacts with human beings in time and space (temporally). Thus, for
Prof. Dr. Godfrey Harold
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Understanding omnipotence [PDF]
Religious Studies, 2012 AbstractAn omnipotent being would be a being whose power was unlimited. The power of human beings is limited in two distinct ways: we are limited with respect to our freedom of will, and we are limited in our ability to execute what we have willed. These two distinct sources of limitation suggest a simple definition of omnipotence: an omnipotent being ...
KENNETH L. PEARCE, ALEXANDER R. PRUSS
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Descartes on Modality and the Eternal Truths [PDF]
Public Reason, 2022 Descartes maintained that God freely created all eternal truths. Yet, while it is impossible for necessary truths to have been otherwise, if they are a matter of God’s free choice, then it seems that they could have been otherwise. Adrian W. Moore (2020)
Sarah Patterson
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Griffin on the Traditional Theological Approaches to the Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018 One of the most important issues in theology and philosophy of religion is the problem of evil and its relation to God and his omnipotence and omnibenevolence.
Haajar Darbandi Darian +2 more
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Wittgenstein and the Pseudo-Problem of Evil
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021 Theists believe that our world was created by an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. If God with such traits creates a world, we would expect that the world to have certain features. Such features should be compatible with God’s traits. We do
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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A Biblical response to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s rejection on God’s Intelligent Design [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most famous scientists in the United States. In particular, Tyson has expertise as an astrophysicist and hehas written several books and received extraordinary awards as an Astrophysician.
Pontas Surya Fernandes +2 more
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Audenter loquor. Esperimenti mentali e controfattualità nel De divina omnipotentia
Noctua, 2022 Beginning in the 1990s, the medieval historiography has devoted increasing attention to the presence of thought experiments in the medieval philosophical sources. Following the line drawn by King, Perler, Grellard and Marenbon studies, this paper aims to
Roberto Limonta
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