The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, Jan 13, 2000 - Religion - 157 pages
Does God know our actions before we do them? And if so, do human beings truly have free will? Dr. Craig contends that both of these notions are compatible, showing how the Bible teaches divine foreknowledge of human free acts, and reveals two ways of "reconciling divine omniscience with human freedom".
 

Contents

Preface
11
The Doctrine of Divine Foreknowledge
21
The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge
49
Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Escape
55
Theological Fatalism Rejected
67
The Necessity of the Past
75
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William Lane Craig, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children, Charity and John. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980 to 1986 he taught philosophy of religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until 1994.

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