The Problem Of Gods Foreknowledge And Future Contingents
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Author | : William (of Ockham) |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780915144136 |
Download Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Includes an introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams along with Notes and Appendices.
Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004085169 |
Download The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004092501 |
Download Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge" and "Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez" (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
Author | : Larry E. Carlson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Predestination |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : T. Ryan Byerly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 162356686X |
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How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.
Author | : Chris Schabel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 135187988X |
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Chris Schabel presents a detailed analysis of the radical solution given by the Franciscan Peter Auriol to the problem of reconciling divine foreknowledge with the contingency of the future, and of contemporary reactions to it. Auriol's solution appeared to many of his contemporaries to deny God's knowledge of the future altogether, and so it provoked intense and long-lasting controversy; Schabel is the first to examine in detail the philosophical and theological background to Auriol's discussion, and to provide a full analysis of Auriol's own writings on the question and the immediate reactions to them. This book sheds new light both on one of the central philosophical debates of the Middle Ages, and on theology and philosophy at the University of Paris in the first half of the 14th century, a period of Parisian intellectual life which has been largely neglected until now.
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996-04-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195355407 |
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This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal relation; the logic of counterfactual conditionals; and the differences between divine and human knowing states. An appendix introduces a new foreknowledge dilemma that purports to show that omniscient foreknowledge conflicts with deep intuitions about temporal asymmetry, quite apart from considerations of free will. Zagzebski shows that only a narrow range of solutions can handle this new dilemma. A compelling contribution to the field, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge will appeal to students and scholars of theistic philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
Author | : William L. Craig |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2023-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666768561 |
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William Lane Craig is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Christian University and a Visiting Scholar at Talbot School of Theology. He has authored or edited over forty books, including his signature book Reasonable Faith, as well as over 200 articles in professional, peer-reviewed publications. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools one of the 50 most influential living philosophers. In 2021 he was ranked by Academicinfluence.com as the tenth most influential philosopher and the third most influential theologian over the last thirty years.
Author | : T. Ryan Byerly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1623565596 |
Download The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.