• Title of article

    Divine omnipotence and moral perfection

  • Author/Authors

    ANDREW LOKE، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    525
  • To page
    538
  • Abstract
    Divine omnipotence entails that God can choose to do evil(even though He will not) by taking up a human nature. In showing others by wayof example how temptations are to be overcome, His exposure to evil desires in suchcircumstances is consistent with moral perfection. The view that ‘God has thegreatest power and is morally perfect simpliciter’, is religiously more adequate than‘God has great power and is essentially morally perfect’. The essentiality of otherdivine attributes to God is discussed, and rebuttals to Anselmian arguments areoffered.
  • Journal title
    Religious Studies
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Religious Studies
  • Record number

    666185