God, Evil, and Human Learning: A Critique and Revision of the Free Will Defense in Theodicy. By Fred Berthold, Jr. Pp. viii + 108. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. isbn 0 7914 6041 X and 6042 8. Hardback 32
This is a rather odd book. It reads as if Professor Berthold had been trying to write a book on the free will defence almost from scratch; the literature on the subject is of course enormous, but very little of it is alluded to in his book, and most of what is dates back to the 1980s at the latest....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 819-820 |
| Review of: | God, evil, and, human learning (Albany, NY : State Univ. of New York Press, 2004) (Sturch, Richard)
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| Summary: | This is a rather odd book. It reads as if Professor Berthold had been trying to write a book on the free will defence almost from scratch; the literature on the subject is of course enormous, but very little of it is alluded to in his book, and most of what is dates back to the 1980s at the latest. This is partly, though not I think wholly, explained by his belief that much of the debate has been wide of the mark because those taking part had not defined what was meant by ‘free will’. They have usually concentrated on whether it should or should not be seen as compatible with determinism. Berthold wants something richer: free will, according to him, is ‘a complex and learned ability—the ability to exercise rational control over one's actions’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli244 |