Free will, predestination, and determinism / John Cowburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowburn, John.

Series:

Marquette studies in philosophy ; #56.

Marquette studies in philosophy ; no. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism--History.

Free will and determinism.

Free will and determinism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the problem of the free-will has been a well-known battleground for philosophers, the problem has significant theological implications too. But attempts to address the problem of the free-will from both the theological and philosophical perspectives are not all that common. Covering the psychological and philosophical conditions for free will, dealing also with compatibilism and chance as well as the historical background of predestination and other theological problems from the Biblical and Patristic periods through the Scholastics and Reformation into the twentieth century, John Cow

Contents:

short title; title page; copyright page; table of contents; epigram; Introduction; part 1 the free will doctrine; chapter 1 free will; chapter 2 kinds of things which we do of our own free will; chapter 3 freedom; chapter 4 the inner face of free will: ownership of acts and responsibility; chapter 5 the outer face of free will: unpredictability; chapter 6 chance; part 2 free will: the theological problems; chapter 7 human free will in the bible and in the fathers; chapter 8 the middle ages and later scholasticism; chapter 9 during and after the reformation; chapter 10 criticism of positions

chapter 11 the divine knowledge and my theorypart 3: the philosophical controversy: determinism versus free will; chapter 12 determinism; chapter 13 compatibilism and implications of determimism; chapter 14 for determinism; chapter 15 settling the argument and replies to these arguments; chapter 16 against determinism; chapter 17 determinism and criminal justice; part 4 making decisions; chapter 18 purely rational decisions; chapter 19 decisions which involve emotions; chapter 20 doing God's will; chapter 21 making the decision and afterwards; conclusion; bibliography; index of names

index of subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-264) and index.

ISBN:

1-4416-2352-3

0-87462-827-X

OCLC:

609853268