| Description |
1 online resource (302 pages) |
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Clarendon library of logic and philosophy |
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Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
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| Contents |
Preface to Revised Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Religious Language -- 2. Conditions for Coherence -- (1) -- 3. Conditions for Coherence -- (2) -- 4. The Words of Theology -- (1) Words with Old and New Senses -- 5. The Words of Theology -- (2) Medieval and Modern Accounts -- 6. Attitude Theories -- Part II. A Contingent God -- 7. An Omnipresent Spirit -- 8. Free and Creator of the Universe -- 9. Omnipotent -- 10. Omniscient -- 11. Perfectly Good and a Source of Moral Obligation -- 12. Eternal and Immutable -- Part III. A Necessary God -- 13. Kinds of Necessity |
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14. A Necessary Being -- 15. Holy and Worthy of Worship -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
| Summary |
The author investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God, concluding that, despite philosophical objections, the claims which religious believers make about God are generally coherent. Sometimes the words by which this is expressed are used in a stretched sense, but theologians acknowledge the fact |
| Analysis |
God Attributes: Self-consistency |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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God (Christianity) -- Attributes.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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God -- Attributes.
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God -- Attributes
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God (Christianity) -- Attributes
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects
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Theïsme.
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Attributen van God.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
77005802 |
| ISBN |
9780191519703 |
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0191519707 |
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