God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will
Title | God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rice |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2004-01-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725209438 |
This book is a thought-provoking study of some issues concerning the historic Calvinist/Arminian debate. Does God know absolutely everything that's going to happen? Can He foresee future moral choices and actions which have not yet been made? If one's future responses and behavior are totally foreknowable, is she truly free? Dr. Richard Rice explores these and other fascinating questions which have sometimes divided Christians. The author gives new perspective on one of the most fundamental issues of the Christian faith: the relationship of God to His creation and the reality and extent of human freedom. Carefully scrutinizing the Scriptures on this subject, the author challenges the reader to examine for himself this critical issue of theology. With strong theological background and sound biblical scholarship, Dr. Rice presents his viewpoint in a convincing and readable style.
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Title | Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | William Lane Craig |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004092501 |
The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge" and "Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez" (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
The Divine Foreknowledge
Title | The Divine Foreknowledge PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | Free will and determinism |
ISBN |
Chosen by God
Title | Chosen by God PDF eBook |
Author | R. C. Sproul |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2011-02-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1414361149 |
Nearly 200,000 copies sold! Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn’t just for Calvinists. It is a doctrine for all biblical Christians. In this updated and expanded edition of Chosen by God, Sproul shows that the doctrine of predestination doesn’t create a whimsical or spiteful picture of God, but rather paints a portrait of a loving God who provides redemption for radically corrupt humans. We choose God because he has opened our eyes to see his beauty; we love him because he first loved us. There is mystery in God’s ways, but not contradiction.
Our Fate
Title | Our Fate PDF eBook |
Author | John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199311293 |
Our Fate collects John Martin Fischer's previously published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. The book includes a substantial new introductory essay that puts all of the chapters into a cohesive framework, and presents a bold new account of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally indeterministic world.
Freedom of the Will
Title | Freedom of the Will PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Free will and determinism |
ISBN |
Salvation and Sovereignty
Title | Salvation and Sovereignty PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Keathley |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433669633 |
In Salvation and Sovereignty, Kenneth Keathley asks, “What shall a Christian do who is convinced of certain central tenets of Calvinism but not its corollaries?” He then writes, “I see salvation as a sovereign work of grace but suspect that the usual Calvinist understanding of sovereignty (that God is the cause of all things) is not sustained by the biblical witness as a whole.” Aiming to resolve this matter, the author argues that just three of Calvinism’s five TULIP points can be defended scripturally and instead builds on the ROSES acronym first presented by Timothy George (Radical depravity, Overcoming grace, Sovereign election, Eternal life, Singular redemption). In relation, Keathley looks at salvation and sovereignty through the lens of Molinism, a doctrine named after Luis Molina (1535-1600) that is based on a strong notion of God’s control and an equally firm affirmation of human freedom.