The Person God Is, Volume 1

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Psychology Press, 2002 - Philosophy - 351 pages
This is Volume I of seven in a collection on the Philosophy of Religion. Originally published in 1970. What is the nature of the person? The revival of interest in this question in learned circles - literary, philosophical, theological, psychological, sociological, and political - is manifested not only in the range of pertinent knowledge but also in the probing for better methods of studying persons and their mutual relations. This book focuses on the nature of the person, finite and divine.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION page
12
GOD CREATOR OF COCREATORS
15
The Person God Is
17
THE HUMAN PERSON AND HIS MORAL STRUCTURE
39
A Temporalistic View of Personal Mind
41
Foundations of Personalistic Psychology
66
The Moral Structure of the Person
95
The Person Obligation and Value
113
Can the Goodness of God be Empirically Grounded?
188
The Goodness of God and Two Conceptions of ValueObjectivity XI Toward a Metaphysics of Creation
206
A Critique
223
An Impasse in Philosophical Theology
238
Free Will The Creativity of God and Order
257
RELIGION AS COCREATION WITH
279
Three Visions of Perfection and Human Freedom
281
Religion as the Pursuit of Creativity by God and Man
294

Is There an Ideal of Personality?
123
GOD THE COSMIC PERSON AND HIS GOODNESS
149
The Logic of Naturalistic Arguments Against Theistic Hypotheses
151
Tennants Critique of Religious Experience
159
The Cosmological Argument Revisited and Revised
172
The Grace of God as Discovered Through Freedom
313
A Liberal Speaks
330
INDEX
345
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Peter A. Bertocci Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University

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