Tag Archives: divine sovereignty

Is God the Author of Sin?

Posted on 13 November 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodi­cies seek to protect God from responsibility for human evil. That’s the upshot of … Continue reading →

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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God

Posted on 19 October 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 the Creator of the … Continue reading →

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The Free-Will Defense and the Impossible Worlds of Molinism

Posted on 10 October 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The free-will defense of evil and suffering is a failure—so Hugh McCann con­tends. This verdict sur­prises, given the opinion of so many phi­losophers that Alvin Plan­tin­ga’s argument succeeds resoundingly. But it succeeds, maintains McCann, only be­cause it aban­dons God’s provi­dential … Continue reading →

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Cross, Exsultet, and the Behoveliness of Sin

Posted on 15 November 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Dame Julian of Norwich presents us with antinomies which most of us (excepting hard-core Calvinists and traditional Thomists) would dismiss as metaphysical contradictions and moral nonsense: In his infinite power, God might have created a world in which all human … Continue reading →

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Is God the Author of Sin?

Posted on 10 January 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

This article has been revised, expanded, and republished on 13 November 2021. Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodicies seek … Continue reading →

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God Makes Us Freely Acting

Posted on 7 January 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

This article has been revised and republished under the title “Breaking the Cords of Fate”(8 November 2021) “We seem almost compelled,” remarks Hugh McCann, “to think there is some competition here: that when it comes to free will there is … Continue reading →

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The World is a Novel in the Mind of God

Posted on 2 January 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

This article has been substantially revised and republished under the same title (29 October 2021) 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 … Continue reading →

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Freedom and Determinism: What’s the Difference?

Posted on 28 December 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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 →

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