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The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence
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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2014-08-28
Publication Date:
2014-10-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1623565596
ISBN13:
9781623565596
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Weight:
370 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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