Abstract
W. Matthews Grant holds that “there is no incompatibility between our acts being caused by God and their being free in the libertarian sense.” A typical view of that incompatibility between freedom and “divine causality” comes from Plantinga:
If I am free with respect to an action A, then God does not bring it about or cause it to be the case either that I take or that I refrain from this action… . For [if He does] then I am not free to refrain from A, in which case I am not free with respect to A.
If I am free with respect to an action A, then God does not bring it about or cause it to be the case either that I take or that I refrain from this action… . For [if He does] then I am not free to refrain from A, in which case I am not free with respect to A.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Theological Perspectives on Free Will |
| Subtitle of host publication | Compatibility, Christology, and Community |
| Editors | Aku Visala, Olli-Pekka Vainio |
| Place of Publication | Oxon; New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 104-112 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003306191 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032274423, 9781032306735 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21 Jul 2023 |