• 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