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Can God Be Free? by William L. Rowe is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Can God Be Free? about?

In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power is such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, as Leibniz tells us,'to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness.'But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely. And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since, as parts of the best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us - he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of these conclusions, taken by itself, seems at all pla

Author

William L. Rowe

Publisher

Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199204120

Subjects

Religion, Christian