RT Article
T1 The Global/Local Distinction Vindicates Leibniz’s Theodicy
JF Theology and science
VO 20
IS 4
SP 445
OP 462
A1 Franklin, James
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1821408721
AB The essential idea of Leibniz's Theodicy has become one of the organizing themes of modern mathematics. Many phenomena are possible locally but for purely mathematical reasons impossible globally. For example, it is possible to build a spiral staircase that is rising at any given point, but not one that is rising at all points and comes back to where it started. The necessity is mathematically provable, so not subject to exception by divine power. Modern mathematics vindicates Leibniz's theory that, contrary to what we think we can imagine, there is no possible world better than this one.
K1 local and global
K1 Leibniz
K1 sceptical theism
K1 Theodicy
K1 problem of evil
DO 10.1080/14746700.2022.2124481