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The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity. It argues that the atemporalist's conception of God is to be preferred over the temporalist's on the grounds of perfect being theology, but that, if it were to be the case that the temporal God existed, rather than the atemporal God, He'd still be 'perfect enough' to count as the God of Theism.
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
The Divine Attributes
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Perfect Being Theology
1 A Transcendent, Immanent, Eternal Person
Personhood
Transcendence
Immanence
Eternality
2 An Omniscient, Omnipotent, Perfectly Good Person
Caricatures
Omniscience
Omnipotence
Perfect Goodness
3 A Unitary, Simple, Necessary Person
Unity
Simplicity
Necessity
Conclusion
Bibliography of Works Cited
Dedication
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