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The Misuse of Anselm's Formula for God's Perfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Leon Pearl
Affiliation:
Hofstra University

Extract

Recently there have been a number of attempts at showing that God's attributes are conceptually defective (Kretzman, Mackie). Foremost among the attributes singled out for criticism is omnipotence. But critics have also questioned the logical compatibility of omniscience and immutability and also omnipotence and omniscience.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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page 355 note 1 Divine Perfection’, Religious Studies, XXI 2 (1985), 144–58.Google Scholar

page 355 note 2 Ibid. p. 147.

page 356 note 1 Ibid. p. 156.

page 356 note 2 Ibid. p. 156.

page 356 note 3 Ibid. p. 156.

page 357 note 1 Ibid. pp. 157–8.

page 357 note 2 Ibid. p. 158.

page 357 note 3 Ibid. p. 147.

page 358 note 1 Ibid. p. 158.

page 362 note 1 Swinburne, R. G., ‘Duty and the Will of God’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, IV, 2 (12. 1974), 213–27;CrossRefGoogle Scholar reprinted in Divine Commands and Morality, edited by Helm, Paul (Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 121.Google Scholar