Title:
Systematic Philosophical Theology. Volume 2a : On God - Attributes of God
Author:
Craig, William Lane, author.
ISBN:
9781394278787
9781394278800
9781394278794
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (578 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Analytic Contents -- Preface to Volume IIa -- Part I De DeoPart I: Attributa Dei -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Incorporeality -- 2.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Incorporeality -- 2.1.1 Divine Creation -- 2.1.2 Divine Omnipresence -- 2.1.3 Divine Imperceptibility -- 2.1.4 Prohibition of Divine Images -- 2.1.5 Divine Spirituality -- 2.2 Natural and Perfect Being Theology -- 2.2.1 Natural Theology -- 2.2.2 Perfect Being Theology -- 2.3 The Coherence of Divine Incorporeality -- 2.3.1 Dualism and Physicalism -- 2.3.2 Physicalist Objections to Divine Incorporeality -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 Necessity -- 3.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Necessity -- 3.2 Two Notions of Divine Necessity -- 3.2.1 Factual Necessity -- 3.2.2 Logical Necessity -- 3.3 Coherence of God's Necessary Existence -- 3.3.1 Criticism of Logically Necessary Existence -- 3.3.2 Broadly Logically Necessary Existence -- 3.4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Aseity -- 4.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Aseity -- 4.2 Testimony of the Church -- 4.3 Requirements of Perfect Being Theology -- 4.4 The Challenge of Platonism -- 4.4.1 The Indispensability Argument -- 4.4.2 Responses to the Indispensability Argument -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Simplicity -- 5.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Simplicity -- 5.1.1 Lack of Scriptural Warrant for (DS+) -- 5.1.2 Incompatibility of (DS+) with Scripture -- 5.2 Roots and Development of Divine Simplicity -- 5.2.1 Neo-Platonic Roots -- 5.2.2 Cappadocian Fathers -- 5.2.3 Augustine -- 5.2.4 Anselm -- 5.2.5 Medieval Muslim and Jewish Philosophers -- 5.2.6 Thomas Aquinas -- 5.3 Arguments for Divine Simplicity -- 5.3.1 Arguments from Divine Perfection -- 5.3.2 Arguments from Divine Aseity -- 5.4 Objections to (DS+) -- 5.4.1 Essence and Existence.
5.4.2 God and His Properties -- 5.4.3 Modal Collapse -- 5.4.4 The Trinity -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Omniscience -- 6.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Omniscience -- 6.1.1 God's Knowledge of the Present -- 6.1.2 God's Knowledge of the Past -- 6.1.3 God's Knowledge of the Future -- 6.2 The Concept of Omniscience -- 6.2.1 Definition of "Omniscience" -- 6.2.2 Coherence of the Concept of Omniscience -- 6.2.3 Omniscience sans Propositions -- 6.3 Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents -- 6.3.1 Philosophical Grounds for Affirming Divine Foreknowledge -- 6.3.2 Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom -- 6.4 Middle Knowledge -- 6.4.1 The Doctrine of Scientia Media -- 6.4.2 Arguments for Divine Middle Knowledge -- 6.4.3 Objections to Middle Knowledge -- 6.4.4 Summary -- 6.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Eternity -- 7.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Eternity -- 7.2 Arguments for Divine Timelessness -- 7.2.1 Divine Simplicity -- 7.2.2 Divine Knowledge of Future Contingents -- 7.2.3 Special Theory of Relativity -- 7.2.4 Incompleteness of Temporal Life -- 7.3 Arguments for Divine Temporality -- 7.3.1 Impossibility of Atemporal Personhood -- 7.3.2 Divine Action in the World -- 7.3.3 Divine Knowledge of Tensed Facts -- 7.4 Eternity and the Nature of Time -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 8 Omnipresence -- 8.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Omnipresence -- 8.2 Divine Omnispatiality -- 8.2.1 Spatial Location Relations -- 8.2.2 Divine Ubiquitous Entension -- 8.2.3 Substantivalism vs. Relationalism -- 8.3 Historical Representatives of Omnispatiality -- 8.3.1 Augustine -- 8.3.2 Anselm -- 8.3.3 Thomas Aquinas -- 8.3.4 Conclusion -- 8.4 Assessment of the Debate -- 8.4.1 Arguments for Divine Spatiality -- 8.4.2 Arguments for Divine Aspatiality -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 9 Omnipotence -- 9.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Omnipotence.
9.2 The Concept of Omnipotence -- 9.2.1 Maximal Degree of Power -- 9.2.2 Maximal Range of Power -- 9.2.3 Power over Modality -- 9.3 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 10 Goodness -- 10.1 Biblical Data Concerning Divine Goodness -- 10.2 The Content of God's Moral Character -- 10.2.1 The Identity Thesis -- 10.2.2 Divine Justice -- 10.2.3 Summary -- 10.3 God and the Good/Right -- 10.3.1 God and the Good -- 10.3.2 God and the Right -- 10.3.3 The Euthyphro Dilemma -- 10.3.4 Summary -- 10.4 Divine Freedom and Perfection -- 10.4.1 Alleged Incoherence of Divine Freedom and Perfection -- 10.4.2 The Best Possible World and Divine Freedom -- 10.4.3 No Best World and Divine Perfection -- 10.4.4 Summary -- 10.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 11 Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography for Volume IIa -- Scripture Index -- Name and Subject Index -- EULA.
Abstract:
"These volumes are chock full of arguments in a way that stands out in this field. . . . This is a remarkable, generational work that will become the resource in philosophical theology." --J.P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University "An enormous undertaking. However, Craig's past record indicates that he can and will carry it through to completion. Furthermore, his established reputation. . . guarantees that the work will attract wide interest and will have a ready readership." --William Hasker, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Huntington University A transformative journey through Christian doctrine, Volume IIa. On God: Attributes of God William Lane Craig's Systematic Philosophical Theology is a multi-volume explication of Christian doctrine in the classic Protestant tradition of the loci communes as seen through the lens of contemporary analytic philosophy. Uniquely blending the disciplines of biblical theology, historical theology, and analytic theology, these volumes aim to provide readers with a biblical and philosophically coherent articulation of a wide range of Christian doctrines. Volume II treats the locus On God in two parts. The first part, Volume IIa. Attributes of God, explores the coherence of theism. Conceiving of God as an infinite and personal being of maximal greatness, Craig carefully defines and explicates the divine attributes of incorporeality, necessity, aseity, simplicity, eternality, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, and goodness. In the second part, Volume IIb. Excursus on Natural theology, The Trinity, Craig examines six arguments for God&'s existence, including the argument from contingency, the kalâm cosmological argument, the argument from the applicability of mathematics, the argument from cosmic fine-tuning, the moral argument, and the ontological argument, along with the problem of evil. Following the excursus, he transitions to an articulation and defence of Christian theism, formulating a biblical doctrine of the Trinity and offering a model of God as a tripersonal soul.
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