Four Views on Free Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Views on Free Will write by John Martin Fischer. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Four Views on Free Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries
Predestination & Free Will
Predestination & Free Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predestination & Free Will write by David Basinger. This book was released on 2009-09-20. Predestination & Free Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Four Views on Divine Providence
Four Views on Divine Providence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Views on Divine Providence write by Paul Kjoss Helseth. This book was released on 2011. Four Views on Divine Providence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Questions about divine providence have preoccupied Christians for generations: Are people elected to salvation? For whom did Jesus die? This book introduces readers to four prevailing views on divine providence, with particular attention to the question of who Jesus died to save (the extent of the atonement) and if or how God determines who will be saved (predestination). But this book does not merely answer readers' questions. Four Views on Divine Providence helps readers think theologically about all the issues involved in exploring this doctrine. The point-counterpoint format reveals the assumptions and considerations that drive equally learned and sincere theologians to sharp disagreement. It unearths the genuinely decisive issues beneath an often superficial debate. Volume contributors are Paul Helseth (God causes every creaturely event that occurs); William Lane Craig (through his 'middle knowledge, ' God controls the course of worldly affairs without predetermining any creatures' free decisions); Ron Highfield (God controls creatures by liberating their decision-making); and Gregory Boyd (human decisions can be free only if God neither determines nor knows what they will be). Introductory and closing essays by Dennis Jowers give relevant background and guide readers toward their own informed beliefs about divine providence.
Perspectives on the Doctrine of God
Perspectives on the Doctrine of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on the Doctrine of God write by Bruce A. Ware. This book was released on 2008. Perspectives on the Doctrine of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These questions are irresistible to ponder. The Bible says, "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? Or who has ever first given to Him, and has to be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things" (Romans 11:34-36a, Holman CSB).
Free Will
Free Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Will write by Kevin Timpe. This book was released on 2008-07-23. Free Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.
