A New Defence of Anselmian Theism

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ID4351345
AuthorsYujin Nagasawa (0000-0002-9907-7205, University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume58
Issue233
Pages577-596
Publication date2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.578.x
OpenAlexW2117172145
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Anselmian theists, for whom God is the being than which no greater can be thought, usually infer that he is an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being. Critics have attacked these claims by numerous distinct arguments, such as the paradox of the stone, the argument from God's inability to sin, and the argument from evil. Anselmian theists have responded to these arguments by constructing an independent response to each. This way of defending Anselmian theism is uneconomical. I seek to establish a new defence which undercuts almost all the existing arguments against Anselmian theism at once. In developing this defence, I consider the possibility that the Anselmian God is not an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Theism · Chemistry · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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