Vocabulary:

• Theism
• Deism
• Pantheism
• Panentheism
• transcendence
• immanence
• omniscience
• omnipotence
• omnibenevolence
• immutable
• impassible
• simple
• contingent
• necessary
• suppositum
• accident
• agnostic
• atheist
• monotheism
• polytheism
• animism
• sympathetic dependence

Names to Know:

• Boethius
• St. Anselm
• St. Thomas of Aquinas
• Samuel Clarke
• Charles Hartshorne

Things to be Familiar With:

• Explain the implications of divine eternality.
• What is the basic difference between the theistic and deistic definitions of 'god'?
• What are the three different ways Pantheists describe divine consciousness discussed in class?
• According to St. Thomas, how does God know future contingent things?
• Be prepared to compare and contrast the four philosophical definitions of ‘god’ and defend the one you think most compelling.
• How does Boethius propose to resolve the conflict between divine omniscience and human free will?
• According to Anselm, why must God be impassible?
• According to Samuel Clarke, what’s the difference between “logical imperfection” and “natural imperfection”?
• Explain the five arguments St. Thomas gives for God's simplicity.
• According to St. Anselm, what are the three basic forms of contingency?
• According to Hartshorne, what is the motivation for arguing that God is absolute?
• Hartshorne argues that independence can be thought of as good and bad, explain each case and which he things appropriately applies to the divine.
• Explain what Hartshorne means by "sympathetic dependence"?