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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Omnipotence | 12 |
| 1 | The Problem | 12 |
| 2 | Conditions on Omnipotence | 14 |
| 3 | Initial Segments and Strong Actualization | 18 |
| 4 | A Definition of Omnipotence | 25 |
| 5 | Two Objections | 27 |
| 6 | The Paradox of the Stone | 29 |
| 7 | Atemporal Omnipotence | 33 |
| 2 | Omniscience | 36 |
| 1 | Defining Omniscience | 36 |
| 2 | Some Complications | 38 |
| 3 | Incorrigibility and Essential Omniscience | 39 |
| 4 | De Dicto et De Re | 41 |
| 5 | De Re et De Se | 46 |
| 6 | Some Objections | 53 |
| 3 | Foreknowledge, Free Will, and the Necessity of the Past | 59 |
| 1 | Foreknowledge and Free Will | 59 |
| 2 | Foreknowledge and Accidental Necessity | 64 |
| 3 | The Assumption Restated | 71 |
| 4 | Freedom and the Ability to Do Otherwise | 74 |
| 4 | Accidental Necessity | 86 |
| 1 | Foreknowledge and Fatalism | 86 |
| 2 | Accidental Necessity | 90 |
| 3 | Another Formal Approach | 100 |
| 4 | A Final Formal Approach | 104 |
| 5 | Accidental Necessity and Ability | 108 |
| 6 | Incompatibilism and Divine Timelessness | 113 |
| 5 | Omniscience, Free Will, and Middle Knowledge | 116 |
| 1 | Middle Knowledge | 116 |
| 2 | Creation, Actualization, and Providence | 119 |
| 3 | Evil and the Free Will Defense | 126 |
| 4 | The Doctrine of Middle Knowledge | 133 |
| 5 | The No Grounds Objection | 140 |
| 6 | Acting out of Character | 143 |
| 7 | The Not True Soon Enough Objection | 148 |
| 8 | Another No Grounds Objection | 150 |
| 9 | Alternatives to Middle Knowledge | 160 |
| 6 | Eternity, Timelessness, and Immutability | 166 |
| 1 | Eternity, Timelessness, and Immutability | 166 |
| 2 | Some Reservations | 172 |
| 3 | Temporal Indexicals and Immutability | 175 |
| 4 | Some Objections | 183 |
| 5 | An Alternative Account of Omniscience | 186 |
| 6 | Divine Action and Immutability | 191 |
| 7 | Divine Goodness and Impeccability | 202 |
| 1 | Perfectly Good | 202 |
| 2 | Goodness and Omnipotence | 204 |
| 3 | Goodness and Freedom | 207 |
| 4 | Impeccability and Praiseworthiness | 211 |
| 8 | The Source of Moral Obligation | 213 |
| 1 | God and Morality | 213 |
| 2 | The Divine Command Theory | 215 |
| 3 | Divine Commands and Divine Will | 217 |
| 4 | Some Objections | 219 |
| 5 | Utilitarianism and the Divine Command Theory | 232 |
| 6 | Conclusion | 235 |
| Index | 237 |
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Robert H Blakesley
reviewed The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes on May 23, 2013
The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes
Read Thomas Williams's translation.
This is probably one of the greatest works of theology (not philosophy) I have read. How rich are his words! They drove me to tears -- O, how good it is to meditate on God and his wondrous riches.
"Surely [I am] both darkened in itself and dazzled by you. Indeed, [I am] both obscured by its own littleness and overwhelmed by your vastness.... What purity, what simplicity, what certainty and splendor are there! Truly [you are] more than any creature can understand" (§14)
"[The eye of the soul] is dazzled by its splendor, vanquished by its fullness, overwhelmed by its vastness, perplexed by its extent." (§16)
Those who read this merely philosophically make a categorical mistake. Proslogion/um is more properly prayer, not abstract philosophy done in the confines of a research university. It is not a work of apologetics (defending or proving a belief); rather, it is an exercise of contemplative prayer -- concluding with a plea for the Beatific Vision.
"O God, I pray that I will know and love you that I might rejoice in you....
O truthful God, I ask that I may receive, that my joy may be full.
Until then, let my mind ponder on it, my tongue speak of it.
Let my heart love it and my mouth proclaim it.
Let my soul hunger for it, my flesh thirst for it, my whole being long for it, until I 'enter into the joy of my Lord,' who is God, Three in One, 'blessed for ever. Amen.'" (§26)
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