Developmental theism [[electronic resource] ] : from pure will to unbounded love / / Peter Forrest

• Autore: Forrest Peter <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 231
• Soggetto topico: Philosophical theology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-194) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Overview -- Theism, simplicity, and properly anthropocentric metaphysics -- Materialism and dualism -- The power, knowledge, and motives of the primordial God -- The existence of the primordial God -- God changes -- Understanding evil -- The Trinity -- The Incarnation -- Concluding remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Peter Forrest gives an account of God as a being who has changed from an impersonal God to the God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. This is not a history of changing ideas about God, but an explanation and defence of the idea of actual 'divine development'. Forrest uses his theme to explore the intractable concepts of the Problem of Evil, the Trinity, and the Incarnation. - ;This is a work of speculative theology based on three themes: that a version of materialism is a help not a hindrance in philosophical theology; that God develops; and that this development is on the whole kenotic, in
• Titolo autorizzato: Developmental theism
• ISBN: 1-281-14934-9; 9786611149345; 0-19-151420-9; 1-4294-7059-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451457303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II