Muller, Richard A.

Divine will and human choice : freedom, contingency, and necessity in early modern reformed thought / Richard A. Muller - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2017 - 329 p. ; 24 cm.

Part I. Freedom and necessity in Reformed thought : the contemporary debate -- Introduction : the present state of the question -- Reformed thought and synchronic contingency -- Part II. Philosophical and theological backgrounds : Aristotle, Aquinas and Duns Scotus -- Aristotle and Aquinas on necessity and contingency -- Duns Scotus and late medieval perspectives on freedom -- Part III. Early modern Reformed perspectives : contingency, necessity, and freedom in the real order of being -- Necessity, contingency and freedom : Reformed understandings -- Scholastic approaches to necessity, contingency, and freedom : early modern Reformed perspectives -- Divine power, possibility, and actuality -- Divine concurrence and contingency -- Conclusions.

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Free will and determinism Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines.Reformed Church Doctrines.

BT810.3 / .M85 2017