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The Contradiction Approach to solving Problems about Omnipotence [PDF]
TheoLogica, 2022 Some philosophers have claimed that the concept of omnipotence is implicitly inapplicable to anything. The well-known “stone problem” is an argument to that effect: whether or not a being can create a stone too heavy for him to lift, there is something ...
Michael Wreen
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New BlackfriarsAbstractThe doctrine that God is unlimited in power has been challenged recently by figures such as Thomas Oord and Philip Goff. This article responds to these challenges from the perspective of classical theism. It is argued that omnipotence follows from God’s being the reason why there is something rather than nothing, and that understanding God in ...
Hewitt, S.
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, 2000 One of the cornerstones of western theology is the doctrine of divine omnipotence. God is traditionally conceived of as an omnipotent or all-powerful being. However, satisfactory analyses of omnipotence are notoriously elusive.
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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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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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Suffering is often experienced by those who obey God, while happiness is experienced by those who do not know God. This study aims to re-examine theodicy about disasters and calamities and tries to provide alternative thoughts regarding the relationship ...
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Undoing the Past. Necessitas per accidens e logica temporale nel De divina omnipotentia
Noctua, 2021 Peter Damian’s letter 119 De divina omnipotentia is characterized by two main issues: the dilemma about the God’s capacity to restore virginity to a woman and the question about the possibility of undoing the past.
Roberto Limonta
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Descartes, God, eternal truths, Creation Doctrine, modality, indifference, omnipotence, essence, arithmetic, Aquinas, Adrian W. Moore. [PDF]
Public Reason, 2022 This paper offers a brief response to Patterson’s paper, ”Descartes on Modality and the Eternal Truths”, which itself is at least in part a response to Moore’s paper, ‘What Descartes ought to have thought about morality”.
Jonathan Head
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The Omnipotence of God in the Quran and Hadiths [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2015 There have been discussions about the omnipotence of God and the world as well as the hereafter in the Quran and quotes either explicitly or implicitly.
aliakbar shayestekejad
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FEBS Letters, 2002 The capability of polyribonucleotide chains to form unique, compactly folded structures is considered the basis for diverse non‐genetic functions of RNA, including the function of recognition of various ligands and the catalytic function. Together with well‐known genetic functions of RNA – coding and complementary replication – this has led to the ...
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Zdroworozsądkowe a filozoficzne poznanie atrybutów Boga
Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2021 The problem considered in this article concerns the relationship between the pre-scientific and philosophical knowledge of God’s attributes. The paper argues that although common sense does not experience omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence ...
Marcin Sieńkowski
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