Could There Be More Than One God?
Faith and Philosophy 5 (3):225 - 241 (1988)
Abstract
THERE COULD BE MORE THAN ONE GOD (DEFINED BY THE NORMAL DIVINE PREDICATES), ONLY IF A FIRST GOD BRINGS ABOUT (FROM ETERNITY) A SECOND GOD, AND THE FIRST TWO BRING ABOUT A THIRD GOD. IN ORDER TO EVINCE THE GOODNESS OF SHARING AND COOPERATING IN SHARING, THEY WILL DO THIS NECESSARILY. BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PRODUCE A FOURTH GOD; AND SINCE A GOD MUST EXIST NECESSARILY IF AT ALL, THERE WILL BE AND CAN BE ONLY THREE GODS. BUT SINCE THEY MUTUALLY SUSTAIN EACH OTHER, THEY FORM A TRINITYAuthor's Profile
ISBN(s)
0739-7046
DOI
10.5840/faithphil19885332
My notes
Similar books and articles
God Laughs: And Other Surprising Things You Never Knew About Him.Charles Billingsley - 2009 - Regal Books.
God Laughs: And Other Surprising Things You Never Knew About Him.Elmer L. Towns - 2009 - Regal Books.
God the What?: What Our Metaphors for God Reveal About Our Beliefs in God.Carolyn Stahl Bohler - 2008 - Skylight Paths.
Morality, God, and Possible Worlds: A Paper Inspired By Richard Swinburne's 'God and Morality'.Jacek Wojtysiak - 2010 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2 (1):199 - 208.
Richard Swinburne, the existence of God, and principle P.Jeremy Gwiazda - 2009 - Sophia 48 (4):393-398.
Analytics
Added to PP
2011-01-09
Downloads
116 (#109,315)
6 months
6 (#133,567)
2011-01-09
Downloads
116 (#109,315)
6 months
6 (#133,567)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Split Brains and the Godhead.Trenton Merricks - 2006 - In Thomas Crisp, David Vander Laan & Matthew Davidson (eds.), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 299-326.
References found in this work
The problem of total devotion.Robert Merrihew Adams - 1993 - In Neera Kapur Badhwar (ed.), Friendship: A Philosophical Reader. Cornell University Press. pp. 108--132.
Goodness, knowledge, and indeterminacy in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.Norman Kretzmann - 1983 - Journal of Philosophy 80 (10):631-649.