God, Modality, and Morality

Synopsis

William E. Mann Presents A Philosophically Defensible Conception Of The Deity Found In The Abrahamic Religions. The Book Draws Insights From Such Figures As Augustine, Philo, Aquinas, Leibniz, And Contemporary Philosophers. Unlike All Other Beings, God Is Perfect And Simple. Simplicity Entails That God Has No Physical Or Metaphysical Parts Or Temporal Stages. Perfection Entails That God Is Immutable, Omniscient, Omnipotent, And Perfectly Good, Having No Equals Or Weaknesses. The Book's Chapters Defend The Coherence Of These Claims Against Various Criticisms. Divine Attributes -- Divine Simplicity -- Simplicity And Immutability In God -- Immutability And Predication What Aristotle Taught Philo And Augustine -- Epistemology Supernaturalized -- Divine Sovereignty And Aseity -- Omnipresence, Hiddenness, And Mysticism -- Necessity -- Modality, Morality And God -- God's Freedom, Human Freedom, And God's Responsibility For Sin -- The Best Of All Possible Worlds -- Theism And The Foundations Of Ethics -- The Metaphysics Of Divine Love -- Jephthah's Plight Moral Dilemmas And Theism -- The Guilty Mind -- Piety Lending A Hand To Euthyphro -- Hope. William E. Mann. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.