Creation and the Sovereignty of God [Hardcover]

Creation and the Sovereignty of God brings fresh insight to a defense of God. Traditional theistic belief declared a perfect being who creates and sustains everything and who exercises sovereignty over all. Lately, this idea has been contested, but Hugh J. McCann maintains that God creates the best possible universe and is completely free to do so; that God is responsible for human actions, yet humans also have free will; and ultimately, that divine command must be reconciled with natural law. With this distinctive approach to understanding God and the universe, McCann brings new perspective to the evidential argument from evil.

Offers an elaborate, rigorous development and defense of the medieval Christian view that God as creator is sovereign, free, and simple.In Creation and the Sovereignty of God, Hugh McCann offers a defense of the traditional conception of God, and a case for Gods existence, that is rigorous, well-informed, comprehensive, and innovativea genuine tour de force.This one is a keeper! With dogged yet irenic spirit, McCann identifies and effectively restores an element one might have presumed to be foundational for any exploration of 'God' in Abrahamic faiths: free creation.Creation and the Sovereignty of God is a cohesive and integrated work that takes on various perennial philosophical and theological problems attendant to the doctrine of God as creator of the cosmos.Creation and the Sovereignty of God is an impressive and thought-provoking work, well worth a read for those interested in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.McCann displays many intellectual virtues in this book: his arguments are well-developed, he carefullyconsiders and refutes objections, and he creatively identifies and recasts mental images or analogies that might make his views appear implausible. This last virtue is aided particularly by his background in action theory. Though McCanns book is often difficult, it rewards the reader with a (perhaps surprl³e