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2. Daniel and Frances Howard Snyder, ‘How an Unsurpassable Being Can Create A Surpassable World’,Faith and Philosophy, 11 (1994), pp. 260–68, reprinted in Eleonore Stump and Michael J. Murray (eds),Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions(Oxford: Blackwell 1999), pp. 35–41.
3. Robert M. Adams, ‘Must God Create the Best?’,Philosophical Review, 81 (1972), pp. 317–322.
4. Eleonore Stump and Michael J. Murray (eds), op. cit., p. 3.
5. Alvin Plantinga,The Nature of Necessity(Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982), ch. 9.