About Peter Anthony Bertocci
Lived 1910 – 1989 (aged 79). Peter Anthony Bertocci was a philosopher.
Peter Bertocci (1910–1989) was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.
Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful".
Selected publications
The Empirical Argument for God in Late British Thought (1935) Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1951) Can the Goodness of God Be Empirically Grounded? (1957) Sex, Love, and the Person (1967) The Person God Is (1970) Is God for Real (1971) The Goodness of God (1981)
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Who was Peter Anthony Bertocci?
American-Italian philosopher
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Peter Anthony Bertocci was born on 13 May 1910.
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Peter Anthony Bertocci died on 13 October 1989.
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Peter Anthony Bertocci was a philosopher.
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