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Author Byerly, T. Ryan.

Title The mechanics of divine foreknowledge and providence : a time-ordering account / T. Ryan Byerly.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

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Edition 1st [edition].
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion
Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements ; Introduction -- PART ONE: From the Existence of Infallible Divine Foreknowledge to Its Mechanics. Chapter One: The Foreknowledge Argument ; Chapter Two: Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of Freedom ; Chapter Three: Foreknowledge and Causal Determinism -- PART TWO: A Time-Ordering Account of Foreknowledge and Providence. Chapter Four: Time-Ordering and Foreknowledge ; Chapter Five: Time-Ordering and Providence ; Chapter Six: The Value and Future of the Time-Ordering Story -- Bibliography.
Summary "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 it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, 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 that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that 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 it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Subject God (Christianity) -- Omniscience.
God (Christianity) -- Omniscience.
Free will and determinism.
Free will and determinism.
Philosophical theology.
Philosophical theology.
Providence and government of God -- Christianity.
Providence and government of God -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Byerly, T. Ryan. Mechanics of divine foreknowledge and providence. 1st [edition] 9781623565596 (DLC) 2014008260 (OCoLC)857967277
ISBN 9781623567880 (electronic book)
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