Peter Anthony Bertocci

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]

Peter Bertocci
Born	May 13, 1910
Died	October 13, 1989 (aged 79)[1]
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy

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)

References

1. "Peter A Bertocci". Fold3. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
2. Reck, Andrew (1991). "The Philosophical Achievement of Peter A. Bertocci". The Personalist Forum. 7 (1): 73–89. ISSN 0889-065X. JSTOR 20708592.
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. ISBN 1-59244-126-2