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The Eternity Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper I defend the eternity solution to the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. After motivating the problem, I sketch the basic contours of the eternity solution.
Rota, Michael   +2 more
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Augustine on election: the birth of an article of faith

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2012
The doctrine of divine election is part of the heritage of Western Christianity. Discussions in the reformed tradition point to the older Augustine as the one who developed the doctrine of double predestination in the controversy with the semi-Pelagians.
Erik A. de Boer
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Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge & Human Freedom

open access: yes, 2000
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 ...
Craig, William Lane
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Divine simplicity : a dogmatic account

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis offers a constructive account of the doctrine of divine simplicity in Christian theology. In its methodology, the thesis aims to present this divine perfection as an implicate of the scriptural portrayal of God, to draw upon the insights and
Duby, Steven J.
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Dalla parte di Giacobbe. Predestinazione, prescienza e provvidenza in Tommaso d’Aquino

open access: yesLexicon Philosophicum
In Thomas Aquinas, the notion of predestination is structurally and inescapably linked, on the one hand, to that of foreknowledge (or divine science), and on the other, to that of providence. What I set out to do here is: first (§2), to outline in broad
Pasquale Porro
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Foreknowledge and Freedom

open access: yes, 2011
The bulk of the essay “Truth and Freedom” (Philosophical Review 118 [2009]: 29–57) opposes fatalism, which is the claim that if there is a true proposition to the effect that an action A will occur, then A will not be free.
Trenton Merricks
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God, time and eternity: philosophical foundations for a defence of divine timelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The past two decades have seen an almost exponential growth in publications on the topic of divine eternity and the general area of 'God and time'. Increasing appeal is made to arguments and resources which ranges widely through contemporary science and ...
Foyle, Stuart Mark
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Gli esordi dell'idea di predestinazione

open access: yesLexicon Philosophicum
The idea of predestination, although the word is not used in Biblical Hebrew, is rooted in Old Testament episodes in which God is said to ‘choose’ or to ‘call’ specific human beings He knew in advance (before they were born) for prophetic missions.
Aldo Magris
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