Dombrowski - Rethinking the Ontological Argument, Theology, philosophy and the history of ideas
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Rethinking the Ontological Argument
A Neoclassical Theistic Response
In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics
have been criticized by philosophers working in both the analytic
and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have pri-
marily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and
problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski
defends the ontological argument against its contemporary crit-
ics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of
God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic
metaphysics. Dombrowski builds on Charles Hartshorne’s crucial
distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which
enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid
the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an
abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the
problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
Daniel A. Dombrowski is professor of philosophy at Seattle University.
He is the author of fourteen books and more than one hundred
scholarly articles, and he has written broadly in the area of process or
neoclassical theism.
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