Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism : Omniscience (Brill's Studies in Itellectual History)

William Lane Craig

ISBN 10: 9004092501 / ISBN 13: 9789004092501

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 1991

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Title: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The ...

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

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.

Review:

..".the most sustained, scholarly treatment of the divine attribute of omniscience since the Middle Ages."
Alan G. Padgett, The Evangelical Quarterly.