Divine foreknowledge and human freedom : : the coherence of theism : omniscience / / by William Lane Craig.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 19
• Author: Craig, William Lane.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill.; c1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 pages).

The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theological Fatalism -- Chapter Two: Reduction of Theological to Logical Fatalism -- Chapter Three: Logical Fatalism -- Chapter Four: Suggested Escapes From Fatalism -- Chapter Five: \'Within One's Power\' -- Chapter Six: Backward Causation -- Chapter Seven: \'Within One's Power\' Once More -- Chapter Eight: Transition to Theological Fatalism -- Chapter Nine: Temporal Necessity -- Chapter Ten: Newcomb's Paradox -- Chapter Eleven: Foreknowledge and Freedom of God -- Chapter Twelve: The Basis of Divine Foreknowledge -- Chapter Thirteen: Middle Knowledge -- Appendix: Is the Special Theory of Relativity Fatalistic? -- Notes to Preface -- Bibliography -- Index.