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Free will and classical theism : the significance of freedom in perfect being theology / edited by Hugh J. McCann

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Oxford University Press, © 2017Description: xvii,230p 24cmISBN:
  • 9780190611200
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 202.2 M478F 23
LOC classification:
  • BT810.3
Contents:
Cover; Free Will and Classical Theism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Central Issues; 1. The Problem of Fr** W*ll; 2. Theological Fatalism as an Aporetic Problem; 3. Responsibility and Freedom; 4. Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense; Part II: Historical Aspects; 5. The Indicative in the Imperative: On Augustinian Oughts and Cans; 6. Anselmian Alternatives and Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples; 7. Libertarian Calvinism; Part III: Divine Freedom
8. The Best Thing in Life Is Free: The Compatibility of God's Freedom and His Essential Moral Perfection9. Two Pictures of Divine Choice; Part IV: Divine Omnicausality and Responsibility; 10. Divine Universal Causality Without Occasionalism (and with Agent-Causation); 11. Theological Determinism and the Relationship with God; Index
Summary: 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Free Will and Classical Theism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Central Issues; 1. The Problem of Fr** W*ll; 2. Theological Fatalism as an Aporetic Problem; 3. Responsibility and Freedom; 4. Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense; Part II: Historical Aspects; 5. The Indicative in the Imperative: On Augustinian Oughts and Cans; 6. Anselmian Alternatives and Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples; 7. Libertarian Calvinism; Part III: Divine Freedom

8. The Best Thing in Life Is Free: The Compatibility of God's Freedom and His Essential Moral Perfection9. Two Pictures of Divine Choice; Part IV: Divine Omnicausality and Responsibility; 10. Divine Universal Causality Without Occasionalism (and with Agent-Causation); 11. Theological Determinism and the Relationship with God; Index

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

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