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Hugh McCann, philosopher of action and advocate of God’s absolute sovereignty, died in 2016. A few years earlier, we discussed God’s radical, maximal nature.

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God’s Sovereignty: A Tribute to Hugh McCann

Episode 12

Season 18

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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. Even if God exists, would it have been possible for God not to exist? In other words, even if God does exist, could...

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Is God Necessary?

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Season 06

26:46

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What does it mean for God to be “perfect”? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Did God create the “perfect world”?...

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Is God Perfect?

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Season 07

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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...

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Is God Necessary?

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What does it mean for God to be perfect? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Perfectly free? Did God create the ‘perfect world’?...

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Is God Perfect?

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If God is perfect, does this mean that God cannot change? Since perfection cannot be improved, would any change diminish God’s perfection? But a changeless God has...

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Can God Change?

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56:50

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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...

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Is God Necessary?

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If God is a ‘perfect being’, God must have necessary existence. But would it be a contradiction in logic if God did not exist? Would God’s non-existence be...

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Is God Logically Necessary?

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If God created the cosmos, what created God? It would not make sense for anything to have created God, because then that ‘anything’, not God, would be God. So, if...

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Is God Self-Existent?

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35:42

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The claim that God is simple is a profound vision of the essence of God. What does it mean for God to be simple? The question addresses God’s composition. God has...

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Is God Simple?

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What does it mean for God to be ‘good’? God can never be bad, do evil, sin? Sure, but what about positive things that God can do? What are those things that best...

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How Good is God?

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35:49

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Gregory Boyd

Founder and Sr. Pastor, Woodland Hills Church

Philip Clayton

Ingram Professor of Theology, Claremont School of Theology

William Lane Craig

Philosopher and Philosophical Theologian; Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Biola University

Oliver Crisp

Head, School of Divinity; Professor, Analytic Theology, University of St. Andrews

William Dembski

Founding Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute

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God's Essence?

Episodes

God’s Sovereignty: A Tribute to Hugh McCann

Is God Necessary?

Is God Perfect?

Topic Series

Is God Necessary?

Is God Perfect?

Can God Change?

Contributors

Gregory Boyd

Philip Clayton

William Lane Craig

Oliver Crisp