Helm, Paul Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion, King's College, London
Print publication date: 1997 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823725-9
doi:10.1093/0198237251.003.0006
 

Paul Helm
This chapter is concerned with the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom. It is argued that an appeal to timelessness does not remove that problem, for it is claimed that there is a clear sense in which we can say that a timeless God nevertheless has foreknowledge. Talk of God's foreknowledge, though legitimate and necessary, has no metaphysical implications for God. It is argued that such foreknowledge is inconsistent with human indeterministic freedom.
Keywords: determinism, foreknowledge, free will, freedom, God, human, indeterminism, metaphysical
doi:10.1093/0198237251.003.0006
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