PART. 1. The free-will doctrine -- 1. Free will -- 2. Kinds of things which we do of our free will -- 3. Freedom -- 4. The inner face of free-will : ownership of acts and responsibility -- 5. The outer face of free will : unpredictability -- 6. Chance -- PART 2. Free-will : the theological problems -- 7. Human free-will in the Bible and the fathers -- 8. The Middle Ages and later scholasticism -- 9. During and after the Reformation -- 10. Criticism of views presented -- 11. The divine knowledge and my theory -- PART 3. The philosophical controversy : determinism versus free-will -- 12. Determinism -- 13. Compatibilism and implications of determinism -- 14. For determinism -- 15. Settling the argument and replies to these arguments -- 16. Against determinism -- 17. Determinism and criminal justice -- PART 4. Making decisions and afterwards -- 18. Purely rational decisions -- 19. Decisions which involve emotions -- 20. Doing God's will -- 21. Making the decision and afterwards
Summary
"Presents the theory underlying the doctrine of free will from both philosophical and theological perspectives"--Publisher description
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-264) and index
Notes
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