ABSTRACT
William Rowe argues that a theist who holds God to be omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect must rather accept the conclusion of Leibniz: that God, though constrained by nothing outside himself and thus free in the compatibilist sense, will nevertheless of necessity create, and will create the best of all possible worlds. Rowe’s primary interest, however, is to apply Thomas Morris’s principle to the notion of an endless sequence of better and better possible worlds. It might be suggested that God might make such a choice in view of the properties of the world created or of the creatures comprised in it, properties God especially desires to see exemplified. It must be admitted that the doctrine of divine impassibility does make things easier at this point, though the advantage is one for which a heavy price must be paid.
