glossary Flashcards
God of classical theism
classical or traditional view of God found in Christianity
omnipotence
total power
omniscience
total knowledge
omnibenevolence
all-loving and God is good
eternal
- existing forever, never ceasing to exist
timeless
- God is outside time
- God created time and thus is beyond it
- concept that doesn’t apply to God
everlasting
- God is within time
- bound by time the same way we are but he is immortal
divine attributes/ nature of God
omnipotence
omnibenevolence
omniscience
eternal
logically coherent
beliefs and ideas that make sense together
paradox
contradictory statement or proposition
free will
ability to determine the course of our own lives
moral responsibility
taking responsibility for your actions
atemporal
timeless God
sempiternal
everlasting
‘eternal present’
God doesn’t move through time like we do
outside time
‘4 dimensional view of time’
past and future exist in same way present does we just can’t access them in same way as present
foreknowledge
awareness of something that happens before it exists
immutable
unchanging overtime or unable to change
predestination / predetermination
future is set
providence
the protective care of God or of the nature as a spiritual power
justice
just behaviour and treatment
simple
unchanging
Swinburne’s parent analogy
punishment born of love
presentism
- the idea that all truly exists is the present and the past is gone and future has no happened yet
- one reality and it is the one that exits now
immanent
God is within space and time
immutable
God cannot change
impassible
God cannot feel anything
