Peter Anthony Bertocci Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
Peter Bertocci
Birth Date:	May 13, 1910
Death Date:	October 13, 1989 (aged 79)^[1]

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.^[2]

Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful".^[3]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peter A Bertocci. Fold3. April 4, 2020.
2. Reck . Andrew . The Philosophical Achievement of Peter A. Bertocci . The Personalist Forum . 1991 . 7 . 1 . 73–89 . 20708592 . 0889-065X.
3. Geisler, Norman; Watkins, William D. (1989). Finite Godism: A World with a Finite God. In Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 196-198.