Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2003)
God's Personal Freedom: A Response to Katherin Rogers
Kevin M. Staley
Saint Anselm College
ABSTRACT
This paper defends the thesis that God need not have created this world and could have created some
other world. God's freedom, as it pertains to creating, is the freedom of indifference. Many object
that such freedom is incompatible with God's goodness, wisdom, and perfect love. They argue that the
freedom of indifference implies arbitrariness and a lack of a genuine concern for His creation on
God's part. I respond by showing that even if the notion of "the best possible world" were
philosophically coherent, God's goodness, wisdom, and love would not be compromised were he to have
created a world that is less than best.
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