Last time I tried to analyze Richard’s argument in ch. 22 that his view preserves monotheism. This time, I critically evaluate the argument. Is it sound?
It goes like this:
There can be at most one omnipotent being. (premise)
No being can have more than one token of any property. (premise)
At most one token of omnipotence can exist. [...]
Has Richard, after these 21 chapters so far of Book III of his On the Trinity (De Trinitate) only succeeded in proving that there are at least three gods? In chapter 22, Richard argues for a negative answer.
First, he refers back to the doctrine of divine simplicity, which is common coin for medieval theists, even, [...]
Little known fact: overwork causes one’s neck to become invisible!
After an embarrassing amount of time, I’ve finally finished my encyclopedia entry on the Trinity for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (as well as lengthy supplementary documents on the history of Trinity doctrines, Judaic and Islamic objections, and unitarianism).
Since I can’t thank them in the entry, [...]
I’m giving a talk tonight (3/1/09) in Amherst, NY, with the above title. Here are my slides. (Or pdf form.)
Here is the event flyer, if you’re in the Buffalo area.
Please, Mercury, do us all a favor and put on some pants!
Colin McGinn wonders, “Why are believers so convinced there is only one God?”
I didn’t find his discussion terribly insightful, but hit the comments link and follow the thread with commenter Theophilus.
This, I think, is a serious omission: that many philosophical theists have thought, [...]
10 parts in the series so far… but how many points?
Time to wrap up this long in the tooth series with a summary, and a few extra thoughts along the way. In parts one and two, we laid out simple arguments that Christ is divine, or that he is the one God. Careful examination of [...]
Nothing is appropriately worshipped except God.
Jesus is appropriately worshipped.
Therefore, Jesus is God.
This argument is valid. But is it also sound?
It may depend on what is meant by the term “worship”. It seems to me that many contemporary Christian philosophers and theologians understand “worship” in a way that makes 1 true by definition.
A man, and a god?
What is monotheism, anyway? This may seem like a stupid question, one with a trivial answer: belief in one god, or in one divine being.
But we’ve seen in this series that it is by no means obvious what the concept of a god / divine being is. I hazarded an analysis [...]
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