Ontology of Divinity / / ed. by Mirosław Szatkowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Almeida, Michael,; Aranyosi, István,; Bartha, Paul,; Barton, Neil,; Buzaglo, Meir,; Davis, Stephen T.,; De Florio, Ciro,; Drees, Willem B.,; Forrest, Peter,; Friedman,,; Frigerio, Aldo,; Gericke, Jaco,; Gould, Paul M.,; Głowala, Michał,; Heil, John,; Heylen, Jan,; Horsten, Leon,; Hájek, Alan,; Kijewska, Agnieszka,; Le Poidevin, Robin,; Leon, Felipe,; Levey, Samuel,; Linnebo, Øystein,; Moreland, James P.,; Morriston, Wes,; Mullins, R. T.,; Newstead, Anne,; Pearce, Kenneth L.,; Priest, Graham,; Rasmussen, Joshua,; Rogers, Katherin,; Shalkowski, Scott A.,; Shapiro, Stewart,; Szatkowski, Mirosław,; Taliaferro, Charles,; Taylor, James E.,; Ternullo, Claudio,
• HerausgeberIn: Szatkowski, Mirosław,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophical Analysis , 89
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 818 p.)

This volume announces a new era in the philosophy of God. Many of its contributions work to create stronger links between the philosophy of God, on the one hand, and mathematics or metamathematics, on the other hand. It is about not only the possibilities of applying mathematics or metamathematics to questions about God, but also the reverse question: Does the philosophy of God have anything to offer mathematics or metamathematics? The remaining contributions tackle stereotypes in the philosophy of religion. The volume includes 35 contributions. It is divided into nine parts: 1. Who Created the Concept of God; 2. Omniscience, Omnipotence, Timelessness and Spacelessness of God; 3. God and Perfect Goodness, Perfect Beauty, Perfect Freedom; 4. God, Fundamentality and Creation of All Else; 5. Simplicity and Ineffability of God; 6. God, Necessity and Abstract Objects; 7. God, Infinity, and Pascal’s Wager; 8. God and (Meta-)Mathematics; and 9. God and Mind.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Incomplete Guide to Ontology of Divinity -- I Who Created the Concept of God? -- 1 The Meaning(s) of the Question of ‘Origins’ and the Creation of ‘GOD’ as ‘Concept’ -- 2 The Concept of God as Perfect Being. The Presentation of Ancient Christian and Medieval Views -- 3 Concepts of God and Their Origins -- II Omniscience, Omnipotence, Timelessness and Spacelessness of God -- 4 Divine Omniscience: Complete Knowledge or Supreme Knowledge? -- 5 Omnipotence and the Power to Make Evil Choices -- 6 Divine Eternality -- 7 Space, Mind and Deity -- III God and Perfect Goodness, Perfect Beauty, Perfect Freedom -- 8 On Modal Arguments against Perfect Goodness -- 9 God and Perfect Beauty -- 10 Absolute Immutability and God’s Libertarian Freedom in the Ontology of Divine Agency -- 11 Why Not? God -- IV God, Fundamentality and Creation of All Else -- 12 God and/as the Universe -- 13 The Problem of Creation Ex Nihilo: A New Argument against Classical Theism -- 14 Natural Sciences as Constraints on Ideas about the Divine -- 15 God and Fundamentality: From Fundamentality to Perfection -- V Simplicity and Ineffability of God -- 16 Divine Simplicity and Eliminative Theism -- 17 Why Divine Simplicity Is Unnecessary -- 18 God and the Paradox of Ineffability -- 19 Divine Simplicity: Anselm’s Neoplatonic Approach -- VI God, Necessity and Abstract Objects -- 20 God, Necessity, and Necessities -- 21 In Defense of Christian Platonism -- 22 God and Abstract Objects -- VII God, Infinity, and Pascal’s Wager -- 23 Pascal’s Wager and the Precautionary Principle -- 24 Reflections on Infinite Utility and Deliberation in Pascal’s Wager -- 25 Quantity Has a Quality All Its Own -- 26 Potential Infinity, Paradox, and the Mind of God: Historical Survey -- 27 Absolute Infinity, Knowledge, and Divinity in the Thought of Cusanus and Cantor -- VIII God and (Meta-)Mathematics -- 28 Reflection in Apophatic Mathematics and Theology -- 29 Are Proofs of God’s Existence Impossible? A Critical Examination of Kant’s Critique -- 30 Spinoza and the Universal Set: A Proposal -- 31 A Divine Consistency Proof for Mathematics -- 32 Naming God’s Essence: Ineffability, Analogy and Set Theory -- IX God and Mind -- 33 What’s on God’s Mind? -- 34 How Phenomenal Consciousness Provides Evidence for God’s Existence and Informs What It Means to Say God Is a Spirit -- 35 God and Mind -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Person Index -- Subject Index