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On the Compatibility of the Divine Attributes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

George N. Schlesinger
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina

Extract

According to Anselm, all Divine qualities are tightly interrelated: they are implied by the unique central property of being absolutely perfect. In the second chapter of the Proslogium, Anselm claims that it is the essence of our concept of God that He is a being greater than which nothing can be conceived. From this, he argues, it is possible to infer that He is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, and so on. In other words, given an absolutely perfect being we can derive all the attributes commonly ascribed to Him.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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References

page 540 note 1 Pearl, LeonThe Misuse of Anselm's Formula For God's Perfection’, Religious Studies XXII (1987), 385.Google Scholar