Just before Christmas 1999, various prominent public figures,
teachers, clergymen and others received a set of ten religious
questions from the BBC's Today programme. All were predictable save
one: "Will there be free will in heaven?" This book addresses this
important question.
Simon Gaine sets out the arguments of two modern philosophers,
one who concludes that heaven is undesirable because it excludes
freedom by excluding the possibility of sin (Wall), and the other
who responds that an orthodox notion of heaven in fact implies the
real possibility of sin (Donnelly). He shows how such modern
concerns have arisen against the background of theologians such as
Suarez, who limits freedom in the face of heavenly impeccability,
and asks whether a high value placed on freedom can be successfully
combined with heavenly impeccability.
He then goes on to investigate the theories of Duns Scotus and
William of Ockham, two theologians who hold a high view of freedom
in general as well as heavenly impeccability, but they are found
wanting. Gaine then introduces an alternative conception of freedom
through an account of Servais Pinckaers' connection of two
different ideas of freedom ("indifference" and "excellence") with
two different moral theologies. He applies these two conceptions to
eschatology.
He concludes that the most pleasing theory combines freedom for
excellence and an intrinsic theory of impeccability develops this
suggestion by drawing on and developing some ideas found in Thomas
Aquinas.
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