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That God is good is affirmed throughout the Bible and is universally accepted by Christians.
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Anselm, The Basic Writings of St Anselm (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1962) pp. 12–13.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (New York: Benzinger Brothers, 1947) I, 25, 3 (see also I, 19, 9).
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, trans. A. Pegis (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975) I, 95, 3.
Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism (Oxford University Press, 1977) p. 202; cf. also pp. 146, 148, 204, 209.
Stephen C. Tornay (ed.), Ockham: Studies and Selctions (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1938) p. 180.
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954) pp. 64–77.
P.T. Geach, Providence and Evil (Cambridge University Press, 1977) p. 79; cf. pp. 80–81.
Jonathan Harrison, ‘Geach on God’s Alleged Ability to do Evil’, Philosophy, vol. 51, no. 196 (April 1976) p. 213.
Nelson Pike, ‘Omnipotence and God’s Ability to Sin’, Baruch Brody (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974) pp. 362–3. This is a helpful article that has influenced my thinking on the subject.
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Davis, S.T. (1983). Benevolence. In: Logic and the Nature of God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06352-9_7
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