Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience
Biographical note
William Lane Craig is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. Publications: Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus (1989); 'No Other Name': A Middle Knowledge Perspective on the Exclusivity of Salvation through Christ (1989) and Middle Knowledge: A Calvinist-Arminian Rapprochement? in The Grace of God, the Will of Man (1989)
The book surveys and critically assesses the contemporary debate over the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future human free acts, drawing upon related discussions of a wide variety of topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, relativity theory, Newcomb's Problem, and middle knowledge.
The book surveys and critically assesses the contemporary debate over the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future human free acts, drawing upon related discussions of a wide variety of topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, relativity theory, Newcomb's Problem, and middle knowledge.
Readership
Graduate students and specialists of the philosophy of religion, philosophers of science and theologians.
Reviews
"...the most sustained, scholarly treatment of the divine attribute of omniscience since the Middle Ages."
Alan G. Padgett, The Evangelical Quarterly.
Alan G. Padgett, The Evangelical Quarterly.
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