Free Will and Classical Theism

The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology
Herausgeber: Mccann, Hugh J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780190611200
• ISBN-10: 0190611200
• Artikelnr.: 47865386

Autorenporträt

Hugh J. McCann taught in the philosophy department at Texas A&M University since 1968; he retired as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in 2014. He was the author of The Works of Agency, and Creation and the Sovereignty of God , and more than 50 articles and encyclopedia entries on action theory, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of art.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction
* Part I. Central Issues
* 1. The Problem of Fr** W*ll Peter van Inwagen
* 2. Theological Fatalism as an Aporetic Problem David Hunt
* 3. Responsibility and Freedom Hugh J. McCann
* 4. Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense Michael Almeida
* Part II. Historical Aspects
* 5. The Indicative in the Imperative: on Augustinian Oughts and Cans
Jesse Couenhoven
* 6. Anselmian Alternatives and Frankfurt style Counterexamples
Katherin Rogers
* 7. Libertarian Calvinism Oliver D. Crisp
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* Part III. Divine Freedom
* 8. The Best Thing in Life Is Free: The Compatibility of God's Freedom
and his Essential Moral Perfection Kevin Timpe
* 9. Two Pictures of Divine Choice Brian Leftow
* Part IV. Divine Omnicausality and Responsibility
* 10. Divine Universal Causality Without Occasionalism (and with Agent
causation) W. Matthews Grant
* 11. Theological Determinism and the Relationship with God Derk
Pereboom
* Index