The Question of God's Perfection : Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud /

Philosophers have often described theism as the belief in the existence of a "perfect being"-a being that is said to possess all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent, among other qualities. But...

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Other Authors: Hazony, Yoram (Editor), Johnson, Dru (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Series: Philosophy of Religion - World Religions 8.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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Call Number: BT102

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Yoram Hazony and Dru Johnson
  • Challenging God's Perfection
  • Is God "Perfect Being"? /
  • Yoram Hazony
  • God the Walker /
  • Berel Dov Lerner
  • The Living God: on the Perfection of the Imperfect /
  • James A. Diamond
  • In Defense of God's Perfection
  • The Personal God of Classical Theism /
  • Eleonore Stump
  • Toward a More Perfect Idea of God /
  • Lenn E. Goodman
  • Perfect Being Theology and Friendship /
  • Brian Leftow
  • Divine Morality
  • Trusting God and Being Ourselves /
  • Alan L. Mittleman
  • Anger and Divine Perfection /
  • Edward C. Halper
  • Omnipotence Is No Perfection: Rabbinic Conceptions of God's Power, Knowledge, and Pursuit of Justice /
  • Alex Sztuden
  • Divine Attributes
  • On How Not to "Sublime" God's Perfection /
  • Randy Ramal
  • Unifying the Name of God /
  • Joshua I. Weinstein
  • Turning from the Perfection of God to the Wondrousness of God: Redirecting Philosophical-Theological Attention in Order to Preserve Humility /
  • Heather C. Ohaneson.