God, the Best, and Evil. By Bruce Langtry
Leibniz notoriously held that God would only create the best of all possible worlds, and so, since he had created this actual world, it must be in some sense the best world possible. As this is not easy to believe, later writers have wondered whether the very idea of a best possible world makes sens...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 771-772 |
| Review of: | God, the best, and evil (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) (Sturch, Richard)
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| Summary: | Leibniz notoriously held that God would only create the best of all possible worlds, and so, since he had created this actual world, it must be in some sense the best world possible. As this is not easy to believe, later writers have wondered whether the very idea of a best possible world makes sense, or, if it does, whether even God has the power to create it (since perhaps such a world would have to contain beings with free will, whose actions he could not control without depriving them of their freedom). In this book, Bruce Langtry begins by investigating the whole idea of a best possible world. |
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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/flp110 |