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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience

By William Lane Craig

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2005
ISBN
9004092501, 9789004092501
LCC
BT131 .C69 1990
Open Library ID
OL1881677M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6334196 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 19
Pages
360\185
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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