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Can God be free?

By William L. Rowe

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0198250452, 9780198250456
LCC
BT130 .R68 2004
Open Library ID
OL22582657M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
899 kB (920379 bytes)
Pages
184\184
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Can God Be Free? is a penetrating study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free, and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely, and we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since he couldn't do otherwise. William Rowe proposes the need for some substantial revision in contemporary thinking about the nature of God.

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