Divine Omniscience And Human Freedom
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Divine Omniscience And Human Free Will
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Author : Ciro De Florio
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Divine Omniscience And Human Free Will written by Ciro De Florio and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise? If all our choices are already written, is our freedom simply an illusion? This book provides a precise analysis of this dilemma using the tools of modern metaphysics and logic of time. With a focus on three intertwined concepts - God’s nature, the formal structure of time, and the metaphysics time, including the relationship between temporal entities and a timeless God - the chapters analyse various solutions to the problem of foreknowledge and freedom, revealing the advantages and drawbacks of each. Building on this analysis, the authors advance constructive solutions, showing under what conditions an entity can be omniscient in the presence of free agents, and whether an eternal entity can know the tensed futures of the world. The metaphysics of time, its topology and the semantics of future tensed sentences are shown to be invaluable topics in dealing with this issue. Combining investigations into the metaphysics of time with the discipline of temporal logic this monograph brings about important advancements in the philosophical understanding of an ancient and fascinating problem. The answer, if any, is hidden in the folds of time, in the elusive nature of this feature of reality and in the infinite branching of our lives.
Divine Foreknowledge And Human Freedom
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Author : William Lane Craig
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1991
Divine Foreknowledge And Human Freedom written by William Lane Craig and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
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.
Divine Omniscience And Human Freedom
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Author : John C. Moskop
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1984
Divine Omniscience And Human Freedom written by John C. Moskop and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Philosophy categories.
The Only Wise God
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Author : William L. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2000-01-13
The Only Wise God written by William L. Craig and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-13 with Religion categories.
Does God know our actions before we do them? And if so, do human beings truly have free will? Dr. Craig contends that both of these notions are compatible, showing how the Bible teaches divine foreknowledge of human free acts, and reveals two ways of Òreconciling divine omniscience with human freedomÓ.
What Does God Know
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Author : William L. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-01-30
What Does God Know written by William L. Craig and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-30 with Religion categories.
Omniscience Foreknowledge And The Problem Of Divine Freedom
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Author : Graham C. Floyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Omniscience Foreknowledge And The Problem Of Divine Freedom written by Graham C. Floyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Philosophy categories.
If God foreknows the future, then he also foreknows his own future actions. How then is God a free and responsible agent? Four attempts at resolving the problem of human freedom in light of divine foreknowledge are applied to the problem of God's freedom in light of his foreknowledge.
What Does God Know
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Author : William Lane Craig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
What Does God Know written by William Lane Craig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Free will and determinism categories.
Middle Knowledge
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Author : John D. Laing
language : en
Publisher: Kregel Academic
Release Date : 2018-04-04
Middle Knowledge written by John D. Laing and has been published by Kregel Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-04 with Religion categories.
Most Christians believe God is in control, but they are unsure of how to reconcile that control with their struggles with sin, the command to evangelize, and the immense suffering in the world and their own lives. Laing offers an introduction to the doctrine of providence based on the theory of middle knowledge, first articulated in the sixteenth century. This view describes how creatures have true free will and God has perfect knowledge of what each creature could and would do in any circumstance. Middle knowledge helps answer the most perplexing theological questions: predestination and salvation, the existence of evil, divine and human authorship of Scripture, and science and the Christian faith. Laing provides extensive biblical support as well as practical applications for this theology.
The Dilemma Of Freedom And Foreknowledge
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Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-25
The Dilemma Of Freedom And Foreknowledge written by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
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.
God Foreknowledge And Freedom
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Author : John Martin Fischer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
God Foreknowledge And Freedom written by John Martin Fischer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Free will and determinism categories.
If God now knows that you will do something in the future, can you nevertheless be free to do otherwise? In recent years there has been much interesting new work on the venerable question of divine foreknowledge and the freedom of the human will - a question that has haunted Christian thought nearly from its inception and is familiar from Boethius and Milton even to those with little awareness of other theological issues. The authors of these twelve essays attempt to articulate an argument that, if sound, would show that God's forknowledge is incompatible with human freedom to do otherwise. They do not all agree that the argument is sound, but they attempt to state precisely why one might worry that God's forknowledge is incompatible with human freedom. Some of the authors also distinguish the argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human freedom from similar arguments for the incompatibility of the present truth of propositions about the future and human freedom, and from arguments for the incompatibility of human foreknowledge and human freedom.