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- Title
THEOLOGICAL REVISIONISM: FROM GOD TO MAXIMAL GOD.
- Authors
Amini, Majid
- Abstract
The classical monotheistic concept of God has been bedevilled by a plethora of logical and metaphysical paradoxes. Recently there have been a number of attempts claiming that by reforming the traditional concept of God as an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being to a concept of God as the being with maximal consistent set of knowledge, power and benevolence, the monotheistic concept of God can be rescued from contradictions and thereby reinstating a viable version of Anselmian theism. By focusing on omnipotence specifically, the purpose of this paper is therefore twofold: (1) to show the logical impossibility of maintaining an absolute or infinite conception of divine attributes, and (2) to show that even a maximal conception of divine attributes is plagued with the problem of uniqueness of God and a variant of the paradox of omnipotence thus indicating that such reformulations are still beset with dilemmas and paradoxes.
- Subjects
OMNIPOTENCE of God; HISTORY of monotheism; ANSELM, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Publication
Cogito (2066-7094), 2016, Vol 8, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
2068-6706
- Publication type
Article