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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: God question
    sub title: what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine
  name:
    name part: Pessin, Andrew
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 324 pages ; 20 cm.
  table of contents: Plato (427-347 B.C.E.): The divine craftsman ; Do the right thing--whatever that means -- Aristotle (382-322 B.C.E.): The unmoved mover -- Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.): The cost of freedom -- Augustine (354-430 C.E.): The prognosticator ; In the beginning was the beginning ; On seeing the light -- Boethius (480-524): The voyeur -- Saadia (882-942): What a long strange trip it hasn't been ; Two ways of being one -- Avicenna (980-1037): God exists because you don't have to ; The eternal emanator -- Anselm (1033-1109): I deny God exists, therefore he exists -- Ghazali (1058-1111): The all-powerful arsonist -- Averroes (1126-98): Knowledge is power ; They can't handle the truth -- Maimonides (1135-1204): Not that many are called ; Speaking of God ... ; And behold, it still is pretty good -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-74): What could be simpler than an infinitely powerful, infinitely intelligent, infinitely good, infinite being? ; Many true and distinct things about God ; Could God create a stone so heavy he couldn't lift it? ; God has not been on vacation since the original creation -- John Duns Scotus (1270-1308): Unchangeably changeable -- Durandus of Saint-Pourçain (c. 1275-1332): That voodoo you do do so well -- William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347): Sinning without sinning ; It ain't over till it's over -- Martin Luther (1483-1546): The devil's advocate -- Luis de Molina (1535-1600): What would Jesus do ... -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617): Miracles by omission -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Appearances may be deceiving -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Miracles are no miracle -- René Descartes (1596-1650): The thing that exists, exists ; The infinite being is not just a good idea ; God's got it going on ; Between the merely inconceivable and the impossible -- Blaise Pascal (1623-62): You bet your life -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-77): You, me, that horse, the heavens ; The deity made me do it -- Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715): I made the deity do it ; Honoring God, not his vegetables ; Th…
  note: Andrew Pessin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Theism
  subject:
    topic: God
    topic: Proof
  classification: 212.1
  identifier: 9781851686599 :
  identifier: 1851686592
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 090101
    record change date: 20151111043058.0
    record identifier: in00002447101