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"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Free will and determinism. --- God (Christianity) --- Philosophical theology. --- Providence and government of God --- Omniscience. --- Christianity.

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A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.

Philosophical anthropology --- Free will and determinism --- Free will and determinism. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ethics --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General

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The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Looking at a subject that is relatively unexplored by literary critics, Langer introduces the reader to some basic features of nominalist theology and uses these to focus on what we find to be "modern" in French and Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Langer demonstrates that this literature, often in its most interesting moments, represents freedom from constraint in the figures of the poet and the reader and in the fictional world itself. In Langer's view, nominalist theology provides a set of concepts that helps us understand the intellectual context of that freedom: God, the secular sovereign, and the poet are similarly absolved of external necessity in their relationships to their worlds.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Renaissance. --- Theology in literature. --- Nominalism in literature. --- Free will and determinism in literature. --- French literature --- Italian literature --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History and criticism. --- History --- Italy --- France --- Intellectual life

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Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West. This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of lat

Providence and government of God. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Free will and determinism. --- Fate and fatalism. --- Free will and determinism --- Providence and government of God --- Fate and fatalism --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Destiny --- Fatalism --- Fortune --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- God --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Providence and government --- Sovereignty --- Academic collection --- 1 <09> --- 1 <37/38> --- 1 "04/14" --- 1 "15/17" --- 1 <37/38> Filosofie: klassieke oudheid --- Filosofie: klassieke oudheid --- 1 <09> Filosofie. Psychologie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Filosofie. Psychologie--Geschiedenis van ... --- 1 "15/17" Filosofie:--Moderne Tijd --- Filosofie:--Moderne Tijd --- 1 "04/14" Filosofie:--Middeleeuwen --- Filosofie:--Middeleeuwen --- Filosofie. Psychologie--Geschiedenis van .. --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- History of philosophy --- Christian moral theology --- Congresses --- Filosofie. Psychologie--Geschiedenis van . --- Libre arbitre et déterminisme --- Providence divine --- Destin et fatalisme --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophie médiévale --- Steel, Carlos G. --- Filosofie. Psychologie--Geschiedenis van --- Free will and determinism - Congresses --- Philosophy, Medieval - Congresses