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Fluctuating maximal God
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2020-03-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s11153-020-09748-w
Anne Jeffrey , Asha Lancaster-Thomas , Matyáš Moravec

This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not atemporal. We argue that the original maximal God thesis still implicitly relies on a “static” view of divine perfections. Instead, following the recent re-evaluation of divine immutability by analytic philosophers, we propose that thinking of divine great-making properties (omnipotence, omniscience etc.) as fluctuating but nevertheless remaining maximal either for every time t or across all times strengthens the original maximal God thesis. Furthermore, we show that “temporalising” Nagasawa’s maximal God and adopting what we call the fluctuating maximal God thesis provides more effective ways of responding to objections to perfect being theism, in particular, the argument from evil and some conceptual problems pertaining to the Incarnation. Finally, we demonstrate that our proposal is compatible with Christian Scriptures and coheres with numerous biblical passages better than Nagasawa’s original proposal does.

中文翻译:

波动最大神

本文结合长泽裕仁的最大上帝论和上帝不是时间性的观点,探讨了各种完美的有神论。我们认为,最初的最大上帝论点仍然隐含地依赖于对神圣完美的“静态”观点。取而代之的是,随着最近分析哲学家对神圣不变性的重新评估,我们提出,将造就伟大的神圣属性(全能、全知等)视为波动但仍然在每个时间 t 或所有时间保持最大的想法加强了原始的最大的神论。此外,我们表明,“时间化”长泽的最大上帝并采用我们所谓的波动最大上帝论点提供了更有效的方法来回应对完美有神论的反对,特别是,来自邪恶的论证和一些与化身有关的概念问题。最后,我们证明我们的提议与基督教圣经兼容,并且比 Nagasawa 的原始提议更好地与许多圣经段落相吻合。
更新日期:2020-03-03
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