God Over All

Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism

William Lane Craig

Offers a unique and helpful taxonomy of the wide range of options available to the classical theist for dealing with the challenge of platonism.
Probes the diverse views on the reality of abstract objects and their compatibility with classical theism.
Provides a thorough discussion, rooted in careful exegesis, of the biblical and patristic basis of the doctrine of divine aseity in the literature.
Challenges the influential Quinean metaontological theses concerning the way in which we make ontological commitments.
A wide-ranging work in analytic philosophy of religion, drawing upon philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaontology.

God Over All

Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism

William Lane Craig

Description

God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism is a defense of God's aseity and unique status as the Creator of all things apart from Himself in the face of the challenge posed by mathematical Platonism. After providing the biblical, theological, and philosophical basis for the traditional doctrine of divine aseity, William Lane Craig explains the challenge presented to that doctrine by the Indispensability Argument for Platonism, which postulates the existence of uncreated abstract objects. Craig provides detailed examination of a wide range of responses to that argument, both realist and anti-realist, with a view toward assessing the most promising options for the theist. A synoptic work in analytic philosophy of religion, this groundbreaking volume engages discussions in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaontology.

God Over All

Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism

William Lane Craig

God Over All

Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism

William Lane Craig

Author Information

William Lane Craig is a Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, before taking a doctorate in Theology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany, where he was for two years a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Prior to his appointment at Talbot he spent seven years at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Wipf and Stock, 2000); Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (BRILL, 1999); and Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (OUP, 1996).