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Free will and God's universal causality : the dual sources account / W. Matthews Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, W. Matthews, author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion.
- Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Free will and determinism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Free will and determinism.
- Teleology.
- Theism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "The traditional doctrine of God's universal causality holds that God directly causes all entities distinct from himself, including all creaturely actions. But can our actions be free in the strong, libertarian sense if they are directly caused by God? W. Matthews Grant argues that free creaturely acts have dual sources, God and the free creaturely agent, and are ultimately up to both in a way that leaves all the standard conditions for libertarian freedom satisfied. Offering a comprehensive alternative to existing approaches for combining theism and libertarian freedom, he proposes new solutions for reconciling libertarian freedom with robust accounts of God's providence, grace, and predestination. He also addresses the problem of moral evil without the commonly employed Free Will Defense. Written for analytic philosophers and theologians, Grant's approach can be characterized as "neo-scholastic" as well as "analytic," since many of the positions defended are inspired by, consonant with, and develop resources drawn from the scholastic tradition, especially Aquinas."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- God: universal cause and cause of human actions
- Divine universal causality and the threat of occasionalism
- Free creatures of the universal cause
- The extrinsic model defended
- Does God cause sin?
- The problem of moral evil
- Providence, grace, and predestination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781350082939
- 1350082937
- 9781350082922
- 1350082929
- 9781350082915
- 1350082910
- OCLC:
- 1166387600
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