Omnipotence and other theological mistakes
By: Charles Hartshorne.
Publisher: State University of New York; State University of New York Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780873957700; 9780873957717
Subjects: God; Ethics
Other titles: Omnipotence & other theological mistakes.
Notes: On spine: Omnipotence & other theological mistakes.

Includes indexes.

Table of contents: title: Six common mistakes about God. The mistakes briefly presented ; What went wrong in classical theism ; The principle of dual transcendence; title: The physical and the spiritual. Materialism and dualism in Greek and Medieval thought ; Plato's world soul: The mind-body analogy for God ; Male bias in theology ; Creation from nothing, magic, and the tyrant conception of God ; Mind or soul as creative of its body ; Psychicalism and the universality of love; title: Creation through evolution. Evolution and belief in God ; Evolution, chance, and natural law ; Darwin's mistake ; Chance, freedom, and the tyrant idea of God ; God takes chances with free creatures ; The religious opposition to evolution ; God "Makes things make themselves" ; Creation neither out of nothing nor out of matter ; Value and sympathy as the keys to power: The final mystery ; Psychicalism and evolution ; The perils of a high level of mind and freedom ; An ornithologist who opposed evolution; title: Equal love for self and other, all-love for the All-Loving. The moral argument against heaven and hell ; Abortion and the nonabsoluteness of personal identity ; Identity, nonidentity, and the primacy ofl ove ; Self-identity as attribute of God ; The present condition of humankind ; A requirement for ethical judgments ; Religion and philosophy ; Is God selfish? ; Divine love as the meaning of life ; Why there is human wickedness ; Nuclear arms ; God and the universe once more.