Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming
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- What balance guides the discussion of divine names and attributes?
- Which pair is explicitly included in the opening attributes?
- Which perfections are especially inferred from the ordered world?
- How do power and will differ conceptually?
- Which inference does NOT follow from affirming divine hearing and sight?
- Why are the opposites of divine perfections considered defects?
- From which verb is shāʾī formed?
- Which account of rational and transmitted evidence is correct?
- What does a conceptual distinction among attributes NOT entail?
- What characterizes an accident in classical kalām?
- What is the central problem with calling God an accident?
- What does persistence mean at the initial level?
- What problem arises if persistence is always posited as another accident?
- What is meant by an accident’s localization following its subject?
- Why is “It existed yesterday and exists today” not a contradiction?
- What is the right meaning of divine self-subsistence?
- How should an attribute’s relation to the qualified be understood here?
- How does an eternal divine attribute differ from a creature acquiring a quality?
- What directly follows from bodies changing color?
- Why separate persistence of bodies from persistence of accidents?
- How should fast and slow movement be analyzed?
- Which two implications chiefly motivate the rejection of corporeality?
- What does non-corporeal correctly mean in this discussion?
- What caution is needed with the word jawhar?
- What is the key distinction between a divine name and a descriptive statement?
- What does tawqīf of divine names mean?
- Distinguishing knowledge from power necessarily implies two independent necessary beings.
- The use of physical organs in creaturely perception does not prove God needs those organs.
- Continued existence and an additional independent accident of persistence are the same thesis.
- A term having an intelligible technical sense is not by itself sufficient to establish it as a formal divine name.