Free Will and Classical Theism - 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 and Classical Theism write by Hugh J. McCann. This book was released on 2017. Free Will and Classical Theism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. Together they provide a historical and contemporary overview of problems in the theology of freedom, along with recent work by some important philosophers in the field aimed at resolving those problems.
Free Will and Theism
Free Will and Theism - 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 and Theism write by Kevin Timpe. This book was released on 2016. Free Will and Theism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents a systematic exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and various accounts of free will in the contemporary domain. With a particular eye on how theological commitments might shape our views about the nature of free will, a team of leading experts in the field explores an important gap in the current debate. They focus their attention on this crucial point of intellectual intersection with surprising and illuminating results.
Anselm on Freedom
Anselm on Freedom - 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 Anselm on Freedom write by Katherin Rogers. This book was released on 2008-06-19. Anselm on Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can human beings be free and responsible if there is a God? Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there be any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human beings must have the option to choose between good and evil in order to be morally responsible, must God be able to choose evil? Anselm answers these questions with a sophisticated theory of free will which defends both human freedom and the sovereignty and goodness of God.
The Case for Freewill Theism
The Case for Freewill Theism - 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 The Case for Freewill Theism write by David Basinger. This book was released on 2010-02-28. The Case for Freewill Theism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can God intervene in this world? If so, to what extent can he intervene? If God intervenes, can we initiate such intervention by prayer? And if God can intervene, why is evil so persistent? Taking up such practical and profound questions, David Basinger (a coauthor of the much-discussed book The Openness of God) offers a probing philosophical examination of freewill theism. This controversial view, put forward most prominently by Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker and Basinger, argues that the God of Christianity desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. Freewill theism, or the "open view" of God, rejects process theology, but calls for a reassessment of such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge. In The Case for Freewill Theism Basinger continues the debate by focusing attention especially on divine omniscience, theodicy and petitionary prayer from the freewill perspective. His careful, precise and compelling argument contributes to a growing and important discussion among orthodox Christian philosophers and theologians.
God and Necessity
God and Necessity - 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 God and Necessity write by Stephen E. Parrish. This book was released on 2001. God and Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. God and Necessity: A Defense of Classical Theism argues that the God of classical theism exists and could not fail to exist. The book begins with the definition of key terms and analysis of the concepts of God and necessity. Extended examinations of the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments are given. The last chapters give an extended exposition and defense of the transcendental argument for God's existence. It is shown that rival accounts of the existence of universe, the Brute Fact and the Necessary Universe theories completely fail, while Necessary Deity, the concept of God existing in all possible worlds, succeeds. Only the latter can account for reality as it is, and can account for knowledge and justification.
