God And Human Freedom
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| Author | : Leigh C. Vicens |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-07-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1108631657 |
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 | : Ron Highfield |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830864504 |
Ron Highfield traces the genealogy of the modern self from Plato, Descartes and Locke to Charles Taylor's landmark Sources of the Self. What emerges is a stark portrait of the modern ideal of self-governance and the crisis it provokes for a Christian view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God.
| Author | : William Lane Craig |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9789004092501 |
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 | : Leigh C. Vicens |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 73 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Liberty |
| ISBN | : 9781108558396 |
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 | : Timothy A. Stratton |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2020-10-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1725276119 |
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.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : 1842 |
| Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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| Author | : Martien E. Brinkman |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2021-11-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004494693 |
Human freedom has been the source of both the high points of humanity as well as of its low points, thus giving rise to the impression that it is a somewhat ambivalent concept. According to Martien Brinkman, the major factor in this ambivalence is the rather narrow meaning that the concept has received in the course of history. Freedom is, for the most part, understood as ‘freedom from’ or ‘freedom to’ but only rarely as ‘freedom for’. However, it is precisely this latter understanding that is closest to the Christian understanding of freedom, which Brinkman defines as ‘internal attachment’. In his view Christian freedom is at bottom characterized by that to which one commits oneself in trust. He sees primarily the Christian theology of baptism, with its accent on ‘dying’ and ‘rising’ with Christ as the model for the way in which one acquires freedom. Brinkman illustrates this in this study by means of a great number of biblical images and images borrowed from the historical debates between Augustine and Pelagius and Luther and Erasmus.
| Author | : David Basinger |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2009-09-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780830876594 |
If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God's self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God's overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four scholars trained in theology and philosophy. John Feinberg of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Norman Geisler of Dallas Theological Seminary focus on God's specific sovereignty. Bruce Reichenbach of Augsburg College and Clark Pinnock of McMaster Divinity College insist that God must limit his control to ensure our freedom. Each writer argues for his perspective and applies his theory to two practical case studies. Then the other writers respond to each of the major essays, exposing what they see as fallacies and hidden assumptions. A lively and provocative volume.
| Author | : Wolfhart Pannenberg |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Religion |
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| Author | : Ted Peters |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2014-04-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136724281 |
Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make deft connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with wisdom.
