RT Article
T1 Omnipotence: Dean Zimmerman, Negative Nelly, and the Divine Delegates
JF TheoLogica
VO 8
IS 2
SP 1
OP 21
A1 Lebens, Samuel 1983-
LA English
PB Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1846124328
AB Should an omnipotent being be able to limit its own power? Along with Swinburne, Dean Zimmerman answers in the affirmative. My intuitions push in the opposite direction. The ability to limit one's own power constitutes a vulnerability. In this paper, I argue that a great deal hangs on this issue. If God cannot revoke His own omnipotence, then only a necessarily existent being can ever create anything truly ex nihilo. Moreover, if God cannot revoke His own omnipotence, then it turns out that theism entails idealism. No wonder that Zimmerman resists. I prefer to take the plunge and endorse idealism!
DO 10.14428/thl.v8i2.77743