The Nature of God: Key Terms

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Omniscience Knowing everything.
Omnipresence Being everywhere in the universe simultaneously.
Omnipotence Having the power to do anything at all.
Omnibenevolence Being unlimited in moral goodness.
Panentheism The belief that God interpenetrates every part of nature and extends infinitely beyond it
Pantheism The belief that God and the universe are one and the same being, making God much more limited
Sempiternal Existing within time, but without beginning or end.
Process theology A theology which begins with the assumption that God is limited.
The Euthyphro Dilemma “Is something good because God commands it, or does God command that thing because it is good?”
Boethius Author of The Consolations of Philosophy which takes the form of an imagined conversation between himself and Philosophy, personified as a woman.
Lady Philosophy The personification of philosophy in Boethius’ book.
St Augustine (354- 430 CE) An eternalist who spotted a deep problem with eternalism.
Anselm (1033-1109) An eternalist who proposed a ‘four dimensionalist’ view of Boethius’ theory of time.
Anthony Kenny 20th century philosopher who claims Boethius’ eternalism is incoherent.
St Augustine (354-430 CE) Lived in the generation before Boethius, and was also an eternalist, but he noticed a deep problem with it.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1729-1847) Held that the world was deterministic because Newtonian physics said the world was entirely explicable in terms of causes, effects and mathematics.
Quantum Mechanics A rewriting of particle physics that built genuine indeterminacy into the world.
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