Describing Gods
Describing Gods
$127.00
USDHow do religious believers describe God, and what sort of attributes do they attribute to him? These are central topics in the philosophy of religion. In this book Graham Oppy undertakes a careful study of attributes which are commonly ascribed to God, including infinity, perfection, simplicity, eternity, necessity, fundamentality, omnipotence, omniscience, freedom, incorporeality, perfect goodness and perfect beauty. In a series of substantial chapters, he examines divine attributes one by one, and relates them to a larger taxonomy of those attributes. He also examines the difficulties involved in establishing the claim that understandings of divine attributes are inconsistent or incoherent. Intended as a companion to his 2006 book Arguing about Gods, his study engages with a range of the best contemporary work on divine attributes. It will appeal to readers in philosophy of religion.
- Discusses a wide range of divine attributes including infinity, fundamentality and incorporeality
- Provides extensive foundations for improved discussion of ontological and cosmological arguments about the existence of God
- A companion volume to Arguing about Gods
Product details
November 2014Hardback
9781107087040
334 pages
236 × 157 × 20 mm
0.6kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Infinity
- 3. Perfection
- 4. Simplicity
- 5. Eternity
- 6. Necessity
- 7. Fundamentality
- 8. Omni-attributes
- 9. Freedom
- 10. Incorporeality
- 11. Value
- 12. Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index.
