God, power, and evil : a process theodicy / [print]
David Ray Griffin.
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2004.
- 336 pages ; 23 cm.
Originally published: Philadelphia : Westminster Press, c1976.
The biblical tradition -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Plotinus -- Augustine : the traditional free-will defense -- Thomas Aquinas : divine simplicity and theological complexity -- Spinoza : everything is simply divine : unorthodox conclusion from orthodox premises -- Luther : the explicit denial of creaturely freedom -- Calvin : omnipotence without obfuscation -- Leibniz : the best of all possible worlds -- Barth : much ado about nothingness -- John Hick : all's well that ends well -- James Ross : all the world's a stage -- Fackenheim and Brunner : omnipotence over logic -- Personal idealism : God makes a sensational impression upon us--more unorthodox conclusions from orthodox premises -- Worshipfulness and the omnipotence fallacy -- A process theodicy.
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Theodicy--History of doctrines. Theodicy. Process theology.