Freedom from fatalism : : Samuel Rutherford's (1600 -1661) doctrine of divine providence / / Robert C. Sturdy.

• VerfasserIn: Sturdy, Robert C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives on Rutherford -- 2. Reassessments of Rutherford in Recent Literature -- 3. New Research on Reformed Scholasticism and Freedom of the Will -- 4. Significance of this Study -- 5. Methodological Considerations -- 6. Organization -- 1. Samuel Rutherford: An Introduction to His Life, Education, Major Controversies, and Writings -- 1.1 Birth and Education (1600-1621) -- 1.1.1 Birth and Early Life -- 1.1.2 Education -- 1.1.3 University Education -- 1.1.4 University of Edinburgh: Curriculum Analysis -- 1.1.5 The Curriculum's Influence on Rutherford -- 1.2 Theological Training, Ministry, and Confinement (1621-1638) -- 1.2.1 Professor of Humanity -- 1.2.2 Theological Training -- 1.2.3 Ministry at Anwoth -- 1.2.4 Prisoner in Aberdeen -- 1.3 University Career and Westminster Assembly (1639-1646) -- 1.3.1 Professor at the University of St Andrews -- 1.3.2 The Solemn League -- 1.3.3 The Westminster Assembly -- 1.4 Final Years (1647-1661) -- 1.4.1 Resolutioners and Remonstrants -- 1.4.2 Rector of the University of St Andrews -- 1.4.3 Death -- 2. The Doctrine of God's Being -- 2.1 The Knowledge of God -- 2.1.1 Scripture as the Means to the Knowledge of God -- 2.1.2 Scripture and Doctrinal Controversy -- 2.1.3 De Cognitione Dei: The Study of God in the Scriptures -- 2.2 The Divine Essence, Unity, and Omnipresence -- 2.2.1 The Divine Simplicity and the Divine Name -- 2.2.2 Distinction of Attributes -- 2.2.3 The Problem of Relative Names and the Divine Simplicity -- 2.2.4 Omnipresence -- 2.2.5 The Free Exercise of Attributes -- 2.3 The Holy Trinity -- 2.3.1 Trinity and Simplicity -- 2.3.2 The Aseity of the Second Person of the Trinity -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. God's Knowledge -- 3.1 Introduction to Structure and Terms.

3.2 God's Necessary and Free Knowledge -- 3.2.1 Scientia Reflexa -- 3.2.2 Scientia Naturalis / Simplicis Intelligentiae -- 3.2.3 Scientia Libera / Visionis -- 3.3 God's Knowledge of Truth Concerning Future Contingent Events -- 3.3.1 Scientia Indeterminata et Determinata -- 3.3.2 Scientia Abstractiva et Intuitiva -- 3.4 Scientia Practica et Speculativa -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. God's Will -- 4.1 God's Will and God's Being -- 4.2 Distinctions Within God's Will -- 4.2.1 Voluntas Beneplaciti et Signi -- 4.2.2 Voluntas Antecedens et Consequens -- 4.3 God's Will and the Free Nature of Sin Punishing Justice -- 4.4 God's Will and the Moral Law -- 4.4.1 The Moral Law and God's Being -- 4.4.2 God's Will as Prima Regula -- 4.5 Summary -- 5. God's Power -- 5.1 Definition and Distinctions -- 5.1.1 Omnipotency -- 5.1.2 Sovereignty -- 5.2 God's Power and the Modalities of Being -- 5.2.1 God's Power and Necessity -- 5.2.2 Impossibility -- 5.2.3 Possibility and Contingency -- 5.2.4 Futurition and Actuality -- 5.3 God's Power and God's Dominion -- 5.3.1 Dominion -- 5.3.2 Dominion and the Scientia Media -- 5.3.3 Modes of Dominion: Delegation or Subordination -- 5.4 Summary -- 6. Creation and God's Providence -- 6.1 Creation -- 6.1.1 An Overview of Rutherford's Doctrine -- 6.1.2 Creation and the Decrees -- 6.1.3 Creatio Ex Nihilo -- 6.2 Quid sit providentia Dei? -- 6.2.1 The Literal and Connotative Sense -- 6.2.2 Scholastic Definition -- 6.2.3 The Four Causes -- 6.2.4 Conservation, Cooperation, and Direction -- 6.2.5 Divine Permission and the Necessity of the Consequence -- 6.3 Providence, Evil, and Sin -- 6.3.1 Divine Permission Defined -- 6.3.2 The Morality of Divine Permission -- 6.3.3 The Manner of Divine Permission -- 6.4 Providence, Permission, and the Necessity of Sin -- 6.4.1 Rules Pertaining to Sin and Permission -- 6.5 Providence and Fatal Necessity.

6.5.1 Natural Fate -- 6.5.2 Stoic Fate -- 6.5.3 Mathematical or Astrological Fate -- 6.5.4 Christian "Fate" -- 6.6 Summary -- 7. Providence, Concursus, and Human Freedom -- 7.1 Jesuit and Arminian Divine Concursus -- 7.1.1 Preliminary Considerations -- 7.1.2 General and Indeterminate Concursus -- 7.1.3 Rutherford's Critique of the General Concursus -- 7.2 Rutherford's Doctrine of General Concursus and Physical Predetermination -- 7.2.1 Rutherford's Doctrine of the General Concursus -- 7.2.2 Physical Predetermination -- 7.2.3 Physical Predetermination and Co-Efficiency -- 7.3 The Human Will and Its Determination -- 7.3.1 The Human Will as Free Cause -- 7.3.2 The Objects and Acts of the Will -- 7.3.3 The Nature of the Will -- 7.3.4 The Freedom of the Will -- 7.4 Joint Action, a Friendly Union -- 7.4.1 A Structural and Logical Analysis of Joint Action -- 7.4.2 Joint Determination and the Friendly Union -- 7.5 Irresistible Grace and Human Liberty -- 7.5.1 The Resistibility of Grace -- 7.5.2 Dominican, Jesuit, Arminian, and Antinomian Perspectives on Converting Grace -- 7.5.3 Rutherford and Converting Grace -- 7.5.4 Converting Grace, Human Liberty, and the Centrality of Love -- 7.6 Summary -- Conclusions -- 1. Rutherford and Scholasticism -- 2. God's Providence and Freedom from Fatalism -- 3. Rutherford and the Freedom of the Will -- 4. Rutherford, "Scotism," and Synchronic Contingency -- 5. Potential Areas of Further Research -- 5.1 Rutherford, Human Liberty, and Early Modern Political Thought -- 5.2 Understandings of Human Liberty in Enlightenment Scotland -- 5.3 "Scotist" Influences on Reformed Orthodoxy -- 6. Final Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Body.