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Livre 6 sur 12: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Byerly, T. Ryan

 
9781501318269: The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1501318268 ISBN 13 : 9781501318269
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times.

The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom.

In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.

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À propos de l'auteur

T. Ryan Byerly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Regent University, USA.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501318268
ISBN 13 
9781501318269
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
142
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