Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God by Paul Gould

By Paul Gould

The query of God's courting to summary gadgets touches on a couple of perennial matters concerning the character of God. God is usually regarded as an autonomous and self-sufficient being. additional, God is sometimes regarded as supremely sovereign such that every one fact exact from God depends on God's artistic and maintaining task. notwithstanding, the view that there are summary gadgets seems a repudiation of this conventional knowing of God. summary items tend to be suggestion to exist unavoidably and it really is traditional to imagine that if anything exists inevitably, it does so since it is its nature to exist. hence, summary items exist independently of God. Philosophers have known as this the matter of God and summary gadgets.

In this publication, six modern ideas to the matter are set out and defended opposed to objections. will probably be worthy for all scholars or students who're drawn to the idea that and nature of God.

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