The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion. Edited by William E. Mann. Pp. xvi + 335. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. isbn 0 631 22128 X and 22129 8. Hardback £55; paper £18.99
The first two parts of this Blackwell Guide, ‘The Concept of God’ and ‘The Existence of God’, cover most of the standard topics to be expected in a collection of this sort. In Part I Linda Zagzebski (‘Omniscience, Time, and Freedom’) concludes that the ‘modal asymmetry of time’ (i.e. of past and fut...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 808-810 |
| Review of: | The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of religion (Oxford, UK : Blackwell Pub, 2008) (Gould, Graham)
The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of religion (Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell Pub., 2005) (Gould, Graham) |
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| Summary: | The first two parts of this Blackwell Guide, ‘The Concept of God’ and ‘The Existence of God’, cover most of the standard topics to be expected in a collection of this sort. In Part I Linda Zagzebski (‘Omniscience, Time, and Freedom’) concludes that the ‘modal asymmetry of time’ (i.e. of past and future as with respect to their contingency) and essential divine omniscience are necessarily incompatible, while Brian Leftow (‘Eternity and Immutability’) seems to prefer a timeless to a temporal God, while allowing (if I have understood correctly) that both options can be formulated coherently. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli238 |