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Creation, Creativity and Necessary Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Martin Hughes
Martin Hughes
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University of Durham, England
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Can the ontological and cosmological arguments (O and C) for the existence of God, whose complex relationship was discussed by Kant, achieve more together than they can achieve apart? Yes, but what they achieve is not necessarily a proof of monotheism.

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Religious Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 349 - 361
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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