Free will, predestination, and determinism
"Presents the theory underlying the doctrine of free will from both philosophical and theological perspectives"--Publisher description
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- Full title :Free will, predestination, and determinism / John Cowburn.
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"Presents the theory underlying the doctrine of free will from both philosophical and theological perspectives"--Publisher description
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Marquette University Press
- Place of Publication:Milwaukee, Wis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441623522, 1441623523, 9780874628272, 087462827X
- oclc:ocn648584895
- LC Classification:BJ1461
- Dewey Decimal:123/.5
Table of Contents
PART. 1. The free-will doctrine -- 1. Free will -- 2. Kinds of things which we do of our free will -- 3. Freedom -- 4. The inner face of free-will : ownership of acts and responsibility -- 5. The outer face of free will : unpredictability -- 6. Chance -- PART 2. Free-will : the theological problems -- 7. Human free-will in the Bible and the fathers -- 8. The Middle Ages and later scholasticism -- 9. During and after the Reformation -- 10. Criticism of views presented -- 11. The divine knowledge and my theory -- PART 3. The philosophical controversy : determinism versus free-will -- 12. Determinism -- 13. Compatibilism and implications of determinism -- 14. For determinism -- 15. Settling the argument and replies to these arguments -- 16. Against determinism -- 17. Determinism and criminal justice -- PART 4. Making decisions and afterwards -- 18. Purely rational decisions -- 19. Decisions which involve emotions -- 20. Doing God's will -- 21. Making the decision and afterwards.
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