Creation, Actualization and God's Choice among Possible Worlds

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4079582
AutoresKlaas J Kraay (0000-0002-6725-9477, Toronto Metropolitan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume3
Fascículo4
Páginas854-872
Data de publicação2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00159.x
OpenAlexW1995128781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências 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