Peter Bertocci | |
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| Born | May 13, 1910 |
| Died | October 13, 1989 (aged 79) [1] |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Peter Bertocci (1910–1989) was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. [2]
Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful". [3]
Selected publications
- The Empirical Argument for God in Late British Thought (1935)
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1951)
- Can the Goodness of God Be Empirically Grounded? (1957)
- Sex, Love, and the Person (1967)
- The Person God Is (1970)
- Is God for Real (1971)
- The Goodness of God (1981)
References
- ^ "Peter A Bertocci". Fold3. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- ^ Reck, Andrew (1991). "The Philosophical Achievement of Peter A. Bertocci". The Personalist Forum. 7 (1): 73–89. ISSN 0889-065X. JSTOR 20708592.
- ^ Geisler, Norman; Watkins, William D. (1989). Finite Godism: A World with a Finite God. In Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 196-198. ISBN 1-59244-126-2
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