If a necessary truth not about God has an ontology, all of it lies outside God. It is always the case that if a truth is necessary and not a negative existential, it has an ontology.ġ1. Some strongly necessary truths are not about God and are not negative existentials, e. 27).Īn alleged conflict with classical theism’s claim of divine ultimacy arises from the assumptions thatĩ. The book also takes up the subsidiary challenge posed by abstract objects to divine ultimacy (p. The basic question which the book seeks to answer is how modal truths relate to God. The fundamental aim of the book is to meet the ostensible challenge posed by necessary truths to the claim that God is the sole ultimate reality by formulating and defending a theistic metaphysics for grounding modal truths. It is a major contribution to modal metaphysics, striking in its creativity, impressive in its argumentation, and mind-numbing in its thoroughness. Brian Leftow’s new book God and Necessity epitomizes that renaissance. In 1974 Alvin Plantinga’s The Nature of Necessity signaled a renaissance of Christian philosophy in the Anglophone world. Brian Leftow, God and Necessity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 575 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-926335-6
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