God and Human Freedom

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God's foreknowledge and God's providential control of creation.

Leigh C. Vicens (Author), Simon Kittle (Author)

9781108457545, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2019

100 pages
23 x 15.3 x 0.5 cm, 0.19 kg

This Element considers the relationship between the traditional view of God as all-powerful, all-knowing and wholly good on the one hand, and the idea of human free will on the other. It focuses on the potential threats to human free will arising from two divine attributes: God's exhaustive foreknowledge and God's providential control of creation.

Introduction
1. Divine foreknowledge and human freedom
2. Divine providence and human freedom.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Philosophy of mind [HPM], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Philosophy [HP]