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The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence - A Time-Ordering Account (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,883
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The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence - A Time-Ordering Account (Hardcover): T Ryan Byerly

The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence - A Time-Ordering Account (Hardcover)

T Ryan Byerly

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion

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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 this debate has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism. This argument attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. The author argues, 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 which would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom.According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times which 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 the model to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Release date: October 2014
First published: August 2014
Authors: T Ryan Byerly
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-559-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > Nature & existence of God
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LSN: 1-62356-559-6
Barcode: 9781623565596

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