Divine Foreknowledge And Human Freedom

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004092501

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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom by William Lane Craig Pdf

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 : William Lane Craig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004246683

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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom by William Lane Craig Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : BL:A0022227255

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The Divine Foreknowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham C. Floyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1948048116

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Omniscience, Foreknowledge, and the Problem of Divine Freedom by Graham C. Floyd Pdf

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.

Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579103163

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The Only Wise God by William L. Craig Pdf

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.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195355406

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The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

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 : Timothy A. Stratton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725276116

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Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism by Timothy A. Stratton Pdf

Does humanity possess the freedom to think and act, or are we always caused and determined to think and act—exactly how we think and act—by things outside of our control? If we are always causally determined to think and act by things outside of our control, then how can humans be genuinely responsible for any of our thoughts or following actions? However, if humanity is genuinely free and responsible for at least some of our thoughts and actions, then how can the Christian rationally affirm the doctrine that God is totally sovereign and predestines all things? In Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism, Timothy A. Stratton surveys the history of theological thought from Augustine to Edwards and reaches surprising historical conclusions supporting what he refers to as “limited libertarian freedom.” Stratton goes further to offer multiple arguments appealing to Scripture, theology, and philosophy that each conclude humanity does, in fact, possess libertarian freedom. He then appeals to the work of Luis de Molina and offers unique arguments concluding that God possesses middle knowledge. If this is the case, then God can be completely sovereign and predestine all things without violating human freedom and responsibility.

Author : John Martin Fischer,Patrick Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199942398

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Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge by John Martin Fischer,Patrick Todd Pdf

This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. It includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges between discussions of human freedom and recent developments in other areas of metaphysics, such as philosophy of time.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : 0804721556

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God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom by John Martin Fischer Pdf

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.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199311293

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Our Fate by John Martin Fischer Pdf

'Our Fate' collects John Martin Fischer's previously published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. The book includes a substantial new introductory essay that puts all of the chapters into a cohesive framework, and presents a bold new account of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally indeterministic world.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : 1930107056

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What Does God Know? by William Lane Craig Pdf

Author : Leigh C. Vicens,Simon Kittle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108631655

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God and Human Freedom by Leigh C. Vicens,Simon Kittle Pdf

This Element considers the relationship between the traditional view of God as all-powerful, all-knowing and wholly good on the one hand, and the idea of human free will on the other. It focuses on the potential threats to human free will arising from two divine attributes: God's exhaustive foreknowledge and God's providential control of creation.

Author : William Hasker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501702907

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God, Time, and Knowledge by William Hasker Pdf

"This outstanding book... is a genuinely pivotal contribution to the lively current debate over divine foreknowledge and human freedom.... Hasker's book has three commendable features worthy of immediate note. First, it contains a carefully crafted overview of the recent literature on foreknowledge and freedom and so can serve as an excellent introduction to that literature. Second, it is tightly reasoned and brimming with brisk arguments, many of them highly original. Third, it correctly situates the philosophical dispute over foreknowledge and freedom within its proper theological context and in so doing highlights the intimate connection between the doctrines of divine omniscience and divine providence."—Faith and Philosophy"[God, Time, and Knowledge] is an elegantly written, forcefully argued challenge to traditional views, and a major contribution to the discussion of divine foreknowledge."—Philosophical Review"This is a very competent, thorough analysis of the conflict between free will and divine foreknowledge (or, on some acounts, timeless divine knowledge of our future). It is exceptionally clear."—Theological Book Review

Author : Ciro De Florio,Aldo Frigerio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030313005

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Divine Omniscience and Human Free Will by Ciro De Florio,Aldo Frigerio Pdf

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.

Author : Richard A. Muller
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493406708

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Divine Will and Human Choice by Richard A. Muller Pdf

This fresh study from an internationally respected scholar of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras shows how the Reformers and their successors analyzed and reconciled the concepts of divine sovereignty and human freedom. Richard Muller argues that traditional Reformed theology supported a robust theory of an omnipotent divine will and human free choice and drew on a tradition of Western theological and philosophical discussion. The book provides historical perspective on a topic of current interest and debate and offers a corrective to recent discussions.