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Why divine foreknowledge?

open access: yesReligious Studies, 2000
Christian theism has traditionally claimed that God knows the future. But why is divine foreknowledge important? In this essay, I argue that divine foreknowledge is valuable to Christian theism and that a hefty theological price must be paid if it is rejected. I also attempt to show that the range of knowledge available to God in theological models
MICHAEL ROBINSON
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Divine Foreknowledge and Fatalism

1997
Abstract It is argued that the compatibility between divine foreknowledge and human libertarian freedom cannot be satisfactorily defended by an appeal to the ’hard fact’–'soft fact’ distinction. The fact that God's foreknowledge is incompatible with human indeterministic freedom does not logical determinism or fatalism.
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On the Incompatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

Sophia, 2010
I argue that the simple foreknowledge view, according to which God knows at some time t1 what an agent S will do at t2, is incompatible with human free will. I criticize two arguments in favor of the thesis that the simple foreknowledge view is consistent with human freedom, and conclude that, even if divine foreknowledge does not causally compel human
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Divine foreknowledge, evidence and epistemic responsibility

Theoria (Stockholm)
AbstractIn several recent publications, John Martin Fischer proposed a new solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge, which he dubbed the bootstrapping view. On this view, God can have limited knowledge of contingent future based on a combination of (a) God's knowledge of inconclusive evidence about the contingent world available to humans and (b)
Anna Maria Karczewska, Marcin Iwanicki
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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski on Divine Foreknowledge

Abstract In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Linda Zagzebski about the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. If God has infallible foreknowledge, then it seems that no one can do anything other than what God foreknows will happen.
Taylor W. Cyr, Matthew T. Flummer
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Divine foreknowledge and divine freedom

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1978
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Foreknowledge & Divine Emotions

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022
In this essay, we move to further advance the work done on God and emotions by RT Mullins, exploring the role exhaustive divine foreknowledge plays as it relates to God’s emotional life. Given our preliminary investigation at the intersection of divine foreknowledge and divine emotion, and focusing specifically on the neoclassical theistic conception ...
Michael DeVito, Tyler McNabb
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Foreknowledge in Renaissance Philosophy: Divine

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This entry deals with the notion of God’s foreknowledge. First, Augustine’s position is delineated, after which follows that of Boethius, in order to introduce the theological and philosophical topics which characterized the later discussion on divine ...
Gerace A, Antonio Gerace
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