God Over All
Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism
William Lane Craig(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 30. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-19-880292-1 (ISBN)
Description
God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism is a defense of God's aseity and unique status as the Creator of all things apart from Himself in the face of the challenge posed by mathematical Platonism. After providing the biblical, theological, and philosophical basis for the traditional doctrine of divine aseity, William Lane Craig explains the challenge presented to that doctrine by the Indispensability Argument for Platonism, which postulates the existence of uncreated abstract objects. Craig provides detailed examination of a wide range of responses to that argument, both realist and anti-realist, with a view toward assessing the most promising options for the theist. A synoptic work in analytic philosophy of religion, this groundbreaking volume engages discussions in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaontology.
Reviews / Votes
[God Over All] deserve[s] to be read far beyond [its] obvious audience. * Simon Hewitt, Philosophia Mathematica * [A] very good book in analytic theology. It is clear in its structure, sophisticated in its justification, and up-to-date. * Benedikt Paul Goecke, Reading Religion * [An] extremely thought-provoking discussion of God * Mary Leng, Faith and Philosophy *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-880292-1 (9780198802921)
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Person
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-Universitaet Muenchen, 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 Kalam Cosmological Argument (Wipf and Stock, 2000); Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (Brill, 1999); and Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (OUP, 1996).
Author
Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University
Content
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
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