William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theol Professor of Philosophy

God Over All

Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is a defence of God's unique status as the creator of all things apart from himself in the face of the challenge of mathematical Platonism. It is based on William Lane Craig's Cadbury Lectures given at the University of Birmingham in March 2015.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780198786887
• ISBN-10: 0198786883
• Artikelnr.: 47867127

Autorenporträt

William Lane Craig is a Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, before taking a doctorate in Theology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, where he was for two years a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kal¿m Cosmological Argument (Wipf and Stock, 2000); Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (BRILL, 1999); and Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (OUP, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: God: The Sole Ultimate Reality
3: The Challenge of Platonism
4: Absolute Creation
5: Divine Conceptualism
6: Making Ontological Commitments (1)
7: Making Ontological Commitments (2)
8: Useful Fictions
9: Figuratively Speaking
10: Make-Believe
11: God Over All
Works Cited
Index