| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Introduction -- Anselm's classical theism -- The Augustinian legacy -- The purpose, definition, and structure of free choice -- Alternative possibilities and primary agency -- The causes of sin and the intelligibility problem -- Creaturely freedom and God as Creator Omnium -- Grace and free will -- Foreknowledge, freedom, and eternity : part I, the problem and historical background -- Foreknowledge, freedom, and eternity : part II, Anselm's solution -- The freedom of God |
| Summary |
Can human beings be free and responsible if there is a God? Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there be any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human beings must h |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Filosofi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
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| SUBJECT |
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109 fast |
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Liberty.
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Freedom
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freedom.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
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Liberty
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191552410 |
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0191552410 |
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9780191716089 |
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0191716081 |
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