LEADER 00000cam a2200769Ki 4500 001 ocn886539905 003 OCoLC 005 20210410012901.5 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 140812s2014 nyu ob 001 0 eng d 015 GBB798887|2bnb 016 7 017961882|2Uk 019 1167270845 020 9781623567880|q(electronic book) 020 1623567882|q(electronic book) 020 |z9781623565596 020 |z1623565596 020 9781623566869 020 162356686X 020 9781501305887|q(online) 020 1501305883 020 9781501318269|q(paperback) 020 1501318268 035 (OCoLC)886539905|z(OCoLC)1167270845 037 9781623566869|bCodeMantra 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dE7B|dCDX|dEBLCP|dYDXCP|dOCLCF |dOCLCQ|dUAB|dBLOOM|dOCLCQ|dUKMGB|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dLUN 049 RIDW 050 4 BT131|b.B94 2014eb 072 7 REL|x067000|2bisacsh 082 04 231/.5|223 090 BT131|b.B94 2014eb 100 1 Byerly, T. Ryan.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2014027178 245 14 The mechanics of divine foreknowledge and providence :|ba time-ordering account /|cT. Ryan Byerly. 250 1st [edition]. 264 1 New York :|bBloomsbury Publishing,|c2014. 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 "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. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 God (Christianity)|xOmniscience.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2006004420 650 0 Free will and determinism.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /subjects/sh85051686 650 0 Philosophical theology.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85100848 650 0 Providence and government of God|xChristianity.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006003656 650 7 God (Christianity)|xOmniscience.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1765772 650 7 Free will and determinism.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/933968 650 7 Philosophical theology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1060773 650 7 Providence and government of God|xChristianity.|2fast |0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1771169 655 0 Electronic books. 655 4 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aByerly, T. Ryan.|tMechanics of divine foreknowledge and providence.|b1st [edition] |z9781623565596|w(DLC) 2014008260|w(OCoLC)857967277 830 0 Bloomsbury studies in philosophy of religion.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013131457 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=826397|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20210519|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW April 9 4115 |lridw 994 92|bRID