Date
4-2020
Document Type
Project
Faculty Advisor
Andrew Eshleman
College/School
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Philosophy
Abstract
This project examines the Judeo-Christian notion of God’s essential perfection as a problem for God’s praiseworthiness. Granted that God cannot commit any action less perfect than what God performs, God seems to lack the freedom to be responsible and is thus rendered ineligible for praise. In exploring another kind of responsibility, I argue that an essentially perfect God can be considered responsible in another sense, which may warrant at least one form of praise-practice: a praise that simply acknowledges expression of the Good.
Subjects
God (Christianity); Praise of God; Christianity and literature
Citation: Pilot Scholars Version (Modified MLA Style)
Cortens, Isabel, "Is a Perfect God Worthy of Our Praise?" (2020). Honors Projects. 23.
https://pilotscholars.up.edu/hon_projects/23
Included in
Christianity Commons, Philosophy Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
Publication Information
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PHL 491H: Senior Honor's Project