Divine Causality And Human Free Choice
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Author | : Robert Joseph Matava |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004310312 |
In Divine Causality and Human Free Choice, R.J. Matava explains the idea of physical premotion defended by Domingo Báñez, whose position in the Controversy de Auxiliis has been typically ignored in contemporary discussions of providence and freewill. Through a close engagement with untranslated primary texts, Matava shows Báñez’s relevance to recent debates about middle knowledge. Finding the mutual critiques of Báñez and Molina convincing, Matava argues that common presuppositions led both parties into an insoluble dilemma. However, Matava also challenges the informal consensus that Lonergan definitively resolved the controversy. Developing a position independently advanced by several recent scholars, Matava explains how the doctrine of creation entails a position that is more satisfactory both philosophically and as a reading of Aquinas.
Author | : Robert Joseph Matava |
Publisher | : Brill |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2016-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004310308 |
R.J. Matava explains physical premotion as defended by Bañez in the Controversy de Auxiliis. Finding the critiques of Bañez and Molina convincing, Matava argues for an alternative rooted in Aquinas's teaching on creation.
Author | : Robert Joseph Matava |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : W. Matthews Grant |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350082910 |
The traditional doctrine of God's universal causality holds that God directly causes all entities distinct from himself, including all creaturely actions. But can our actions be free in the strong, libertarian sense if they are directly caused by God? W. Matthews Grant argues that free creaturely acts have dual sources, God and the free creaturely agent, and are ultimately up to both in a way that leaves all the standard conditions for libertarian freedom satisfied. Offering a comprehensive alternative to existing approaches for combining theism and libertarian freedom, he proposes new solutions for reconciling libertarian freedom with robust accounts of God's providence, grace, and predestination. He also addresses the problem of moral evil without the commonly employed Free Will Defense. Written for analytic philosophers and theologians, Grant's approach can be characterized as “neo-scholastic” as well as “analytic,” since many of the positions defended are inspired by, consonant with, and develop resources drawn from the scholastic tradition, especially Aquinas.
Author | : Richard A. Muller |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493406701 |
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.
Author | : Robert Joseph Matava |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : Christian List |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674239814 |
A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries. Today, many scientists and scientifically minded commentators are skeptical that it exists, especially when it is understood to require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. If the laws of physics govern everything that happens, they argue, then how can our choices be free? Believers in free will must be misled by habit, sentiment, or religious doctrine. Why Free Will Is Real defies scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defense of free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed against it. Unlike those who defend free will by giving up the idea that it requires alternative possibilities to choose from, Christian List retains this idea as central, resisting the tendency to defend free will by watering it down. He concedes that free will and its prerequisites—intentional agency, alternative possibilities, and causal control over our actions—cannot be found among the fundamental physical features of the natural world. But, he argues, that’s not where we should be looking. Free will is a “higher-level” phenomenon found at the level of psychology. It is like other phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are autonomous from them and not best understood in fundamental physical terms—like an ecosystem or the economy. When we discover it in its proper context, acknowledging that free will is real is not just scientifically respectable; it is indispensable for explaining our world.
Author | : Terese Auer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433501155 |
This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
Author | : Kevin Timpe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198743955 |
This volume presents a systematic exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and various accounts of free will in the contemporary domain. With a particular eye on how theological commitments might shape our views about the nature of free will, a team of leading experts in the field explores an important gap in the current debate. They focus their attention on this crucial point of intellectual intersection with surprising and illuminating results.