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.