This paper will closely examine the dominant conception of God found in contemporary ‘analytic’ philosophy of religion, which I call the ‘the personal-omniGod’ conception. On this conception, God is understood as a person (without a body) who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent (morally perfect), and who creates and sustains all (else) that exists. Much of the paper will focus on issues surrounding two broad questions: (1) Is the personal-omniGod conception logically coherent (i.e. free of contradiction)? In particular, are each of the properties loaded into the personal-omniGod conception individually coherent, and are they mutually consistent? And (2) Is the personal-omniGod conception consistent with key practices and (doctrinal) claims typically associated with the Abrahamic religious traditions, especially Christianity?

This paper is taught as a NET paper.

Each week will focus on a different topic(s). There will often be inter-connections between the topics. Each week students are expected to watch three lecture videos, do the assigned reading(s), and work towards major pieces of assessment. In addition, students are expected to participate in an online discussion forum during 8 weeks of the paper (teaching weeks 2 through 5 and teaching weeks 8 through 11). The first online discussion forum will be open in week 2 of the paper. There will not be a discussion forum in teaching weeks 6 or 12 (i.e. the week before the mid-trimester break and the last week of the paper). This is to give you more time to focus on major pieces of assessment. There is no final exam. There will not be a discussion forum in teaching week 7 to allow students to focus on a take-home test on that week’s topic.

There is a total of 150 hours learning time. This includes contact hours, assessment and personal study time. Video content is included in contact time