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Tag Archives: human freedom
Is God the Author of Sin?
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
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, divine sovereignty, eternal damnation, evil, free will, hell, human freedom, providence, sin, theodicy
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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 the Creator of the … 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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The Free-Will Defense and the Impossible Worlds of Molinism
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
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends, Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged divine sovereignty, evil, free will, God, human freedom, middle knowledge, Molinism, providence, theodicy
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Rowboating with God: The Mystery of Synergism
Several years ago I telephoned a well-known Orthodox theologian and asked him to elaborate on the doctrine of synergism. He pointed me to the words of the Apocalypse of John: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, causal joint, cooperation, divine agency, God, human freedom, Kallistos Ware, synergism
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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
A Self-effacing Gardener: The Unity of God’s Activity in Nature and Grace in the Theology of Austin Farrer
by Jeffrey A. Vogel, Ph.D. Introduction At the end of Faith and Speculation, his last major work, Austin Farrer writes the following: “Our thesis is no more than that the relation of created act to creative Act is inevitably indefinable, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, cosmology, divine action, divine providence, double agency, evolution, God, human freedom
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But the Problem of Free Will
by David W. Opderbeck, Ph.D. As mentioned at the end of my previous post, David Bentley Hart’s argument in That All Shall Be Saved depends on a specific understanding of human freedom and the will. In response to the “free will” argument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged damnation, free will, gnomic will, hell, human freedom, Maximus the Confessor, universal salvation
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The Possibility of a Thomistic Universalism: A Review of David Bentley Hart’s ‘That All Shall Be Saved’
by Taylor Nutter It seems prudent to begin this review of That All Shall Be Saved by following Hart in the confession of my own perspective. That perspective, after all, sets the conditions for the conclusions at which I will … Continue reading