How Are We to Think of God's Freedom?
The paper discusses two conceptions of divine freedom. The first, Hugh McCanns, proposes that God is a timelessly eternal act, whose agency is not deliberative and who, in that act, creates himself and the contents of his will. God is such an act. Following discussion of this view, its costs and be...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Année: 2015, Volume: 7, Numéro: 3, Pages: 49-65 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Dieu
/ Libre arbitre
/ Liberté
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AB Philosophie de la religion NBC Dieu |
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| Résumé: | The paper discusses two conceptions of divine freedom. The first, Hugh McCanns, proposes that God is a timelessly eternal act, whose agency is not deliberative and who, in that act, creates himself and the contents of his will. God is such an act. Following discussion of this view, its costs and benefits, a more traditional account of Gods freedom, in which he possesses vestigial alternativity, the freedom to choose an alternative should there have been a sufficient reason to do so. |
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| Contient: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i3.104 |
