Creation, Actualization and God's Choice among Possible Worlds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4079582
AutoresKlaas J Kraay (0000-0002-6725-9477, Toronto Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen3
Número4
Páginas854-872
Fecha de publicación2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00159.x
OpenAlexW1995128781
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas69

God is traditionally understood to be a perfect being who is the creator and sustainer of all that is. God's creative and sustaining activity is often thought to involve choosing a possible world for actualization. It is generally said that either there is (a) exactly one best of all possible worlds, or there are (b) infinitely many increasingly better worlds, or else there are (c) infinitely many unsurpassable worlds within God's power to actualize. On each view, critics have offered arguments for atheism that turn on God's choice of a world. In what follows, I first discuss some background issues, and I then survey the contemporary literature on these arguments

Atheism · Epistemology · Possible world · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil