Toward a new kalām cosmological argument

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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Benjamin Victor Waters¹ 

[1] Rice University;

关键词: kalām;    cosmological argument;    God;    classical theism;    temporal finitism;    philosophical theology;   

DOI  :  10.1080/23311983.2015.1062461

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

William Lane Craig has revived interest in the medieval kalām argument to the point where it is now one of the most discussed arguments for God’s existence in the secondary literature. Still, the reception of Craig’s argument among philosophers of religion has been mostly critical. In the interest of developing an argument that more philosophers of religion would be inclined to support, I will lay the philosophical groundwork for a new kalām cosmological argument that, in contrast with Craig’s argument, does not adopt such controversial positions as the dynamic theory of time and the metaphysical impossibility of an actual infinite.

【 授权许可】

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