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An Irrelevance of Omnipotence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

P. T. Geach
Affiliation:
University of Leeds

Extract

The title I have chosen naturally suggests the question: What are you saying omnipotence is irrelevant to? I reply: This doctrine is irrelevant to worthwhile discussion of the problem of evil. By this phrase I understand: the problem how the existence of a God with the attributes traditionally ascribed to him in Christian belief can be reconciled with the occurrence of the sorts of evil that we find in the world.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1973

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References

1 ‘Omnipotence’, Philosophy 48, No. 183 (01 1973), 720.Google Scholar