Fragmented Future Contingents and Omniscience [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we have analyzed a number of solutions to the antinomy between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. If we assume that God is temporal, then a sort of backwards causation of past divine beliefs by future human acts must be acknowledged ...
Ciro De Florio +3 more
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Allameh Tabatabaei and William Craig on Theological Fatalism; A Comparison Study [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2016 According to the theological fatalism, future matters are necessary and this necessity makes them unalterable; so, human beings are not able to make the future by their free will and this is incompatible with human freedom.
abdol rasoul kashfi +1 more
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Omniscience and Divine Co-eternality [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016 The conflict between divine foreknowledge and human free will is a major controversy within theology and philosophy of religion. Needless to say, the proper notion of time and its relation to God is essential for coping with this conflict.
Enshallah Rahmati
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Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]
, 2012 It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T.R. +2 more
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Time, Truth, Actuality, and Causation: On the Impossibility of Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]
, 2010 In this essay, my goal is, first, to describe the most important contemporary philosophical approaches to the nature of time, and then, secondly, to discuss the ways in which those different accounts bear upon the question of the possibility of divine ...
Tooley, Michael
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A Temporal and Timeless God: How Multiple Divine Persons Can Reconcile Libertarian Free Will, Divine Foreknowledge, and Divine Agency [PDF]
, 2023 Libertarian free will and divine foreknowledge at first seem incompatible. Are humans in charge of their own destiny if God knows human agents’ free choices? We also have the related issue of God’s agency concerning foreknowledge of human events. Can God
Morgan, Christopher
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Is Divine Providence Risky? A Dialogue Between John Calvin and John Sanders
Conspectus, 2022 This study presents John Calvin and John Sanders as an example of the ongoing debate on the nature of divine control and human freedom. Given the time gap between Calvin and Sanders, the study uses a dialogical hermeneutics methodology.
Aku Stephen Antombikums
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A Study of John Martin Fischer’s View Regarding Divine Foreknowledge and Man’s Moral Responsibility [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 Summary The possible incompatibility between God’s foreknowledge and the free will of the agent shows that this issue is wide-ranging: if God has infallible knowledge of all of man’s actions before he has performed them, essentially, is there the ...
Tavakkol Kouhi, Javad Danesh
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Deliberation and Divine Foreknowledge
, 2022 This paper discusses the implications of divine foreknowledge for an agent’s ability to deliberate about their actions. If a divine being has knowledge of the choices that an agent will make, and the outcomes that will arise from those choices, the act ...
Carter, Julianne
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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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