Omnipotence as a Perfection of God

Yulia Gorbatova ()
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Abstract: This article deals with the concept of omnipotence, which is very important for contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. Within the analytic tradition it is usual to show an apparent tension between God’s omnipotence and other divine attributes. In response, some authors have proposed their own ideas on how the classical problems of omnipotence can be solved in terms of possible worlds theory. In this paper we consider the approaches developed by Geach, Adams and Plantinga. While admitting that each of them has made a significant contribution to the refinement of the concept of omnipotence, we point out a number of important challenges that these authors were not able to overcome

Keywords: God; omnipotence; Adams worlds; possible worlds; semantics; Leibniz; Plantinga (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2012
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, December 2012, pages 1-21

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