Title of article
God, fatalism, and temporal ontology
Author/Authors
DAVID KYLE JOHNSON، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages
20
From page
435
To page
454
Abstract
Theological incompatibility arguments suggest God’s comprehensiveforeknowledge is incompatible with human free will. Logical incompatibilityarguments suggest a complete set of truths about the future is logically incompatiblewith human free will. Of the two, most think theological incompatibility isthe more severe problem; but hardly anyone thinks either kind of argumentpresents a real threat to free will. I will argue, however, that sound theologicaland logical incompatibility arguments exist and that, in fact, logical incompatiblyis the more severe problem. A deep analysis of the arguments will reveal that,to avoid a fatalist conclusion, we must reject bivalence and adopt a specific kind oftemporal ontology (presentism), which also forces the theist to embrace opentheism
Journal title
Religious Studies
Serial Year
2009
Journal title
Religious Studies
Record number
666139
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