Peter Bertocci (1910–1989) was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

. He was a president of the

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

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

20th-century American philosophers American philosophy academics 1910 births 1989 deaths Finite theists Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America Place of birth missing Place of death missing Boston University faculty {{US-philosopher-stub