On 4/25/06, Robert J. Chassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > [I don't say it in the draft, but I have heard that for the past 600 > or so years, various Muslim theologians have said that their God is > omnipotent and unrestrained. Does anyone know whether this is true?] .... > Robert J. Chassell
Hard to say. I'm not really sure what you are trying to get across? The supreme deity as omnipotent? That's been around for a lot longer than 600 years, and Islamic theology is no slouch in picking up neat innovations like omniscience or omnipotence. Unrestrained does sound a little more iffy; it reminds me of the Greek Neoplatonists who inspired later Muslim philosophers and theologians. For example, the Brethren of Sincerity (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brethren_of_Sincerity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Sincerity - full disclosure: I wrote those articles) took a position that the Creator was unbounded in ability and attributes, and that to even describe him in remotely earthly (or comprehensible for that metter) terms was to commit a falsity. ~maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
