TY - BOOK ID - 80820174 TI - Rethinking the ontological argument : a neo-classical theistic response PY - 2006 SN - 9780511498916 9780521863698 9780521326353 9780511226458 0511226454 0521863694 0511498918 1280550570 9781280550577 0521863694 0521326354 1107169070 0511225881 0511224605 0511317883 051122527X PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - God KW - Process theology KW - Theism KW - Philosophy KW - Religion KW - Atheism KW - Misotheism KW - Panentheism KW - Theology, Process KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Ontological argument KW - Ontology KW - Proof, Ontological KW - Theism. KW - Process theology. KW - Proof, Ontological. KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80820174 AB - In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this 2006 volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on 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. ER -