God's Goodness
God's Goodness
Think for Christ di Dr. Anthony Alberino
28 gen 2026
16:00
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Is God good because He follows moral rules—or is He goodness itself? All Christians confess that God is good. But what does that actually mean?

In this episode, Anthony Alberino challenges the modern assumption that divine goodness is simply maximal moral perfection and show why that view leads straight into a classic philosophical dilemma. Drawing from Aristotle, Aquinas, and the classical Christian tradition, this episode argues that God’s goodness is not a moral property He possesses, but something far deeper: God is Goodness Itself.

We explore:

  • Why the modern “moral perfection” view of God collapses into an Euthyphro-style dilemma
  • The classical metaphysical account of goodness as teleological, perfective, and convertible with being
  • Why goodness is not primarily moral, but ontological
  • How perfe ... 
Parole chiave
classical philosophy
classical theism
anthony alberino
morality
euthyphro dilemma
god
evil
goodness
moral goodness
evil as privation