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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
descriptions and mere gibberish and as logicians know | 14 |
happens may be false if the thing in question already | 17 |
sidered turn out to involve both inherent logical difficul | 23 |
An Irrelevance of Omnipotence | 29 |
actual state of affairs given e g his promises and what | 31 |
made himself need his creatures and became liable | 37 |
The simple rule about Gods knowledge is given by | 40 |
going to happen and human action may have made | 50 |
not see the future he knows it by controlling it | 56 |
a high tower | 62 |
mitigate the difficulty appear sophistical | 68 |
infer that God is frustrated when an acorn does | 73 |
courage cannot be ascribed to God | 78 |
Original | 84 |
that it always was going to happen By reason of some | 48 |
Common terms and phrases
accept action actual almighty animals answer appears Aquinas argued argument ascribe believe body bring called cause certainly chance Christ Christian clear confusion consider consistent course creatures damned death deny destroy distinction Divine doctrine equal eternal everything evil example exist explanation fact faith Fall false feat final follows freedom future give given God's going going to happen happen Heaven Hell hold hope human idea infliction knowledge laws less live logically logically possible man's matter McTaggart means merely mind misery natural necessary never objection omnipotence Original pain perhaps philosopher possible prevented problem Problem of Pain promise proposition question reason regard reject religion revelation seems sense sins so-and-so story suffering teaching teleological things thought tion tradition true truth understand universe virtue wicked wish wrong
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Providence and Evil: The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Stanton lectures, ISSN 1971-1972 |
| Author | Peter Geach |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | CUP Archive, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0521214777, 9780521214773 |
| Length | 153 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Political Religion / General |
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