The Divine Attributes

The Divine Attributes......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Authors’ Note......Page 12
Introduction to Rational Theology......Page 15
1.1 Historical Conceptions of the Divine......Page 23
1.2 God as a Maximally Great Being......Page 27
2.1 Substance Among Other Categories......Page 37
2.2 Substance and Independence......Page 42
2.3 Spinoza’s Divine Substance......Page 47
3.1 Spirituality and Omnipresence......Page 53
3.2 Are Souls Unintelligible?......Page 55
3.3 Is Body-Soul Interaction Unintelligible?......Page 65
3.4 Divine Simplicity......Page 73
4.1 Necessity and Contingency......Page 89
4.2 Necessary Beings and Contingent Beings......Page 93
4.3 Modalities and Possible Worlds......Page 95
4.4 Necessary Beings versus Self-Existent Beings......Page 103
5.1 Temporal versus Atemporal Eternality......Page 111
5.2 A Defense of Temporal Eternality......Page 114
5.3 Incorruptibility versus Immutability......Page 121
6.1 Omniscience as Maximal Knowledge......Page 125
6.2 The Analysis of Omniscience......Page 138
6.3 Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom......Page 140
7.1 God and the Nature of Morality......Page 157
7.2 Perfect Goodness and Consequences......Page 161
7.3 Perfect Virtue and Moral Rules......Page 167
7.4 Maximal Greatness and Moral Admirability......Page 170
8.1 Maximal Power and the Uniqueness of God......Page 180
8.2 What an Omnipotent Agent Can Do......Page 183
8.3 The Analysis of Omnipotence......Page 185
8.4 Divine Omnibenevolence, Omnipotence, and Freedom......Page 187
Concluding Remarks and Prolegomena to Future Rational Theology......Page 193
Glossary......Page 204
Index......Page 215