ISBN:
9789004387980
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Philosophy of religion volume 8
Series Statement:
Philosophy of Religion - World Religions v. 8
Series Statement:
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Question of God’s Perfection: Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud
Keywords:
God Biblical teaching
;
Gott
;
Bibel
;
Talmud
Abstract:
Introduction /Yoram Hazony and Dru Johnson -- Challenging God’s Perfection -- Is God “Perfect Being”? /Yoram Hazony -- God the Walker /Berel Dov Lerner -- The Living God: on the Perfection of the Imperfect /James A. Diamond -- In Defense of God’s Perfection -- The Personal God of Classical Theism /Eleonore Stump -- Toward a More Perfect Idea of God /Lenn E. Goodman -- Perfect Being Theology and Friendship /Brian Leftow -- Divine Morality -- Trusting God and Being Ourselves /Alan L. Mittleman -- Anger and Divine Perfection /Edward C. Halper -- Omnipotence Is No Perfection: Rabbinic Conceptions of God’s Power, Knowledge, and Pursuit of Justice /Alex Sztuden -- Divine Attributes -- On How Not to “Sublime” God’s Perfection /Randy Ramal -- Unifying the Name of God /Joshua I. Weinstein -- Turning from the Perfection of God to the Wondrousness of God: Redirecting Philosophical-Theological Attention in Order to Preserve Humility /Heather C. Ohaneson.
Abstract:
Philosophers have often described theism as the belief in the existence of a “perfect being”—a being that is said to possess all possible perfections, so that it is all-powerful, all-knowing, immutable, perfectly good, perfectly simple, and necessarily existent, among other qualities. But such a theology is difficult to reconcile with the God we find in the Bible and Talmud. The Question of God’s Perfection brings together leading scholars from the Jewish and Christian traditions to critically examine the theology of perfect being in light of the Hebrew Bible and classical rabbinic sources. Contributors are James A. Diamond, Lenn E. Goodman, Edward C. Halper, Yoram Hazony, Dru Johnson, Brian Leftow, Berel Dov Lerner, Alan L. Mittleman, Heather C. Ohaneson, Randy Ramal, Eleonore Stump, Alex Sztuden, and Joshua I. Weinstein
DOI:
10.1163/9789004387980
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