Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism

ISBN-13: 9781032094786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Benjamin H. Arbour

Opis

This new collection of philosophically rigorous essays critiques the interpretation of divine omniscience known as open theism, focusing primarily on philosophically motivated open theism and positing arguments that reject divine knowledge of future contingents in the face of the dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge.

Spis treści

Introduction

Benjamin H. Arbour

Part I: Open Theism and the Metaphysics of Time

1. The Openness of God: Eternity and Free Will

Eleonore Stump

2. God’s Knowledge of an Unreal Future

Sandra Visser

3. A Few Worries About the Systematic Metaphysics of Open Future Open Theism

Benjamin H. Arbour

Part II: Open Theism and Other Philosophical Issues

4. Open Theism and Origins Essentialism: A New Argument Against Open Theism

David Alexander

5. The ‘Openness’ in Compatibilism

Paul Helm

6. Foreknowledge, Freedom, and Vicious Circles: Anselm vs. Open Theism

Katherin Rogers

7. On Open Theism, Either God Has False Beliefs, or I Can Know Something That God Cannot Know

Robert B. Stewart

Part III: Open Theism and Other Issues in Philosophical Theology

8. "May it Have Happened Lord!": Open Theism and Past Directed Prayers

James Anderson

9. Open Theism, Risk-Taking, and the Problem of Evil

Greg Welty

10. Open Theism and the Soteriological Problem of Evil

Kenneth Perszyk

11. Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins: Open Theism, Atonement, and the Pastoral Problem of Evil

Keith Wyma

O autorze

Benjamin H. Arbour is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Weatherford College, USA