Charles Hartshorne and the Ontological Argument

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“On Hartshorne’s Formulation of the Ontological Argument: A Rejoinder.”  Philosophical Review 54, no.1 (January 1945): 63-65.  

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“What Did Anselm Discover?”  In The Many-Faced Argument, ed. John Hick and Arthur C. McGill (New York: Macmillan, 1967): 321-333.     

“What Did Anselm Discover?”  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 17, no.3 (March 1962): 213-222.

“What the Ontological Proof Does Not Do.”  Review of Metaphysics 17, no.4 (June 1964): 608-609.