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The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Autor Dr. T. Ryan Byerly
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2016
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times.The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom.In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501318269
ISBN-10: 1501318268
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Draws out important relationships between topics in the philosophy of time and the freedom-foreknowledge debate

Notă biografică

T. Ryan Byerly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Regent University, USA.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE: From the Existence of Infallible Divine Foreknowledge to Its MechanicsChapter One: The Foreknowledge ArgumentChapter Two: Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of FreedomChapter Three: Foreknowledge and Causal DeterminismPART TWO: A Time-Ordering Account of Foreknowledge and ProvidenceChapter Four: Time-Ordering and ForeknowledgeChapter Five: Time-Ordering and ProvidenceChapter Six: The Value and Future of the Time-Ordering StoryBibliography

Recenzii

T. Ryan Byerly offers a refreshingly original account of how divine foreknowledge and providence might be achieved. This is an important contribution to philosophical theology and metaphysics which should be studied and discussed widely in coming years.
Byerly provides an insightful overview of the argument for theological fatalism, argues (rightly, I believe) that it cannot succeed unless divine foreknowledge entails causal determinism, and proposes that God's ordering of times can account for his infallible foreknowledge while leaving human freedom intact. This is a novel approach to a well-nigh intractable problem and should command the attention of anyone with a serious interest in the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom.
Several things impress here: First, the ingenuity and clarity of the argument; second, the fact that Byerly and other analytic philosophers are engaging religious topics seriously. Even those (like me) who prefer to work in a different idiom, and those are not entirely persuaded, can be grateful for the rigor of their contributions.