Henry Longueville Mansel

The Unknowable ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198809531.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 36-58

Author(s):

W. J. Mander

Keyword(s):

Positive Attitude ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Space And Time ◽

Basic Law

Henry Longueville Mansel is today almost as neglected as William Hamilton as a thinker. He was a great supporter of Hamilton, whose work he both defended and edited, and whose basic law of the conditioned he was happy to endorse. This chapter presents an examination of the central principles of the Mansel’s metaphysics which begins by considering his relation to Kant and then explores his reasons for thinking that God or the infinite is beyond Human conceivability. Against this are set his reasons for believing in the existence of God and his positive attitude towards revelation, which famously drew the hostility of Mill. The chapter concludes with consideration of his views on space and time, substance, mind and matter, causality and freedom.

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Book Review: The Existence of God. Readings selected and edited by John Hick. MP 164. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1964. 305 pp. $1.95 (paper); Problems of Space and Time. Readings selected and edited by J. J. C. Smart. MP 165. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1964. 436 pp. $2.95 (paper); Body, Mind, and Death. Readings selected and edited by Antony Flew. MP 166. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1964. 306 pp. $1.95 (paper).

Interpretation A Journal of Bible and Theology ◽

10.1177/002096436602000323 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 363-363

Author(s):

John H Leith

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

John Hick ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Space And Time

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Creation in a Closed Universe Or, Have Physicists Disproved the Existence of God?

Religious Studies ◽

10.1017/s003441250000130x ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 39-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robin Le Poidevin

Keyword(s):

Temporal Structure ◽

Closed Surface ◽

Closed Universe ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Space And Time ◽

Stephen Hawking ◽

History Of ◽

The Universe

Could a theory concerning the temporal structure of the universe have any implications for the possibility of a creator? A recent remark by Stephen Hawking suggests that it could. In A Brief History of Time, Hawking writes:The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary … has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe… So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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