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Tag Archives: determinism
Apprehending Apokatastasis: The Necessary Choosing of the Good
Every human being is divinely ordered to God under the aspects of the transcendentals of being—the Truth, the Good, and the Beautiful. We hunger and thirst for union with him, for only in him can we enjoy supreme and overflowing … Continue reading
Tom Talbott Reviews ‘That All Shall Be Saved’ (Part IV)
by Thomas Talbott, Ph.D. Predestination unto Glory Christians have traditionally held that, because they are saved by grace, they can take no credit for their own salvation, all of the credit for which goes to God. As Paul himself put … Continue reading
Suffering, Theodicy, and Apocatastasis
“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this question after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. Hart compares the orthodox Christian … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart
Tagged David Hart, determinism, evil, God, providence, suffering, theodicy, universal salvation
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God Makes Us Freely Acting
“We seem almost compelled,” remarks Hugh McCann, “to think there is some competition here: that when it comes to free will there is no way that both we and God can both have legitimate prerogatives, no way that one can … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged determinism, divine agency, divine creation, divine sovereignty, free will, God, human freedom, Kathryn Tanner
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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God
Can God determine our actions? One need not think more than a second or two. Of course he can, we answer. If CIA brainwashers and television advertising can cause us to act in specific ways, then certainly God can. Let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged determinism, divine creation, divine sovereignty, free will, God, human freedom, predestination, Westworld
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Freedom and Determinism: What’s the Difference?
Free agency, states Hugh McCann, exhibits three essential features. First, free actions cannot be “the product of independent event-causal conditions. An autonomous agent has to be a center of novelty—a point from which, to the extent he influences it, the … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged determinism, divine creation, divine sovereignty, free will, God, Hugh McCann, libertarian freedom
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Does God “respect” our freedom?
One often finds the following proposition asserted: God has created humanity as free beings and has thus bound himself not to interfere with their free decisions and choice. Divine agency and human agency are conceived as mutually exclusive. In one … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, determinism, divine agency, double agency, Hugh McCann, human freedom
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“Every instance of finite becoming or thought or desire subsists in the creature’s ‘ecstasy’ out of nonbeing into the infinite splendor of God”
What then, one might well ask, is divine providence? Certainly all Christians must affirm God’s transcendent governance of everything, even fallen history and fallen nature, and must believe that by that governance he will defeat evil and bring the final … Continue reading
Posted in Citations
Tagged damnation, David Hart, determinism, freedom, God, heaven, hell, providence
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