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Omni-beauty as a divine attribute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2018

JON ROBSON
JON ROBSON*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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e-mail: jonvrobson@gmail.com
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Abstract

The claim that God is perfectly beautiful has played a key role within the history of a number of religious traditions. However, this view has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers of religion in recent decades. In this article I aim to remedy this neglect by addressing some key philosophical issues surrounding the doctrine of divine beauty. I begin by considering how best to explicate the claim that God is perfectly beautiful before moving on to ask what consequences accepting this claim will have for our broader theorizing in philosophy.

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Religious Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 55 - 75
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