Theological Perspectives on Free Will - Compatibility, Christology, and Community

Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it is implicated in discussions around core Christian doctrines such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil and predestination.

List of contents

List of contributors
1 Introduction: Free Will and Philosophical Theology
Aku Visala
PART I: Compatibility
2 Why Christians Should (Still) Be Compatibilists
Jesse Couenhoven
3 Weighing Compatibilism and Libertarianism in Analytic Theology
Kevin Timpe
4 Can an Unfree Person Have a "Deep Self"?
Leigh Vicens
5 The Semantic Case Against Open Theism and Experimental Philosophy
Ferhat Yöney
6 Freedom, Even If God Decrees It
Fr. James Dominic Rooney, Op
PART II: Community
7 Free Together: On Christian Freedom and Group Ontology
D. T. Everhart
8 Free Will, Cognitive Biases, and Theology
Simon Kittle
9 Bound Choice and the Mystery of Eternal Punishment – A Trilemma for Monergistic Accounts of Grace
Aku Visala
10 A Theological Three-Body Problem: Why Lutherans Are Bound to Struggle With Free Will?
Olli-Pekka Vainio
PART III: Christology
11 Another Look at the Final Temptation of Christ
David Worsley
12 The Impeccable Freedom of Christ
Johannes Grössl

About the author

Aku Visala is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Olli-Pekka Vainio is University Lecturer of Systematic Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Summary

Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it is implicated in discussions around core Christian doctrines such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil and predestination.

Product details

• Authors: Aku Vainio Visala
• Assisted by: Olli-Pekka Vainio (Editor), Vainio Olli-Pekka (Editor), Aku Visala (Editor), Visala Aku (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032274423
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227442-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / General, Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Philosophy of religion