CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Ahmed, Muhammad |
|---|---|
| Title | A Rational Theist Perspective On The Christian Conception Of God; An Argument From Logic And Simplicity |
| Summary | This paper will pursue a rational theist perspective to investigate which conception of God within Christianity is better at fulfilling the demands of logic and simplicity without using any scriptural or aposteriori arguments. This question is important because it takes a perspective of a theist who has already arrived at the truth of monotheism, so this paper will only seek to stay consistent to the principles they derived while arriving at their conclusion. In the first two chapters we will discuss various solutions, put forward to reconcile the apparent logical problems with the concept of the trinity, by Richard of St. Victor, William Lane craig, J. P. Mooreland, Richard Swinburne, Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. We will eventually conclude that these conceptions do not fulfill the demands of simplicity and logic better than Arianism (an unorthodox conception). Subsequently we will argue that Arianism is the better option, given the alternatives, for the rational theist. |
| Supervisor | Weberman, David; Robinson, Howard |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/ahmed_muhammad.pdf |
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