1st Edition

The Necessity of God Ontological Claims Revisited

By R. T. Allen Copyright 2008
105 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

105 Pages
by Routledge

Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe, the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the Absolute--R. T. Allen claims that all these and other world- views have been held to be that which... Read more
Preface, 1. Previous Ontological Arguments for the Existence of God, 2. Something Must Exist, 3. Further Attributes of Necessary Being, 4. Impersonal or Personal?, 5. The Relation of the Necessary God to a Merely Possible World, 6. God as Necessary but Also Finite, Epilogue: Review and Prospect, Appendix: Hartshorne’s Dipolar Conception of God, Bibliography, Index

Biography

R. T. Allen