Free Will in Philosophical Theology

Kevin Timpe is Professor of Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, USA, and former Templeton Research Fellow at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives (Continuum, 2008) and Free Will in Philosophical Theology (Continuum, forthcoming). He is also editor of Metaphysics and God (Routledge, 2009), Arguing aboutReligion (Routledge, 2009) and (with Craig Boyd) Virtues and Their Vices (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His recent publications have appeared in Philosophical Studies, AmericanPhilosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Philosophia.

• DedicationAcknowledgements Chapter 1: The Importance and Nature of Free Will1.1 Introduction1.2 Philosophical Theology1.3 The Nature of Free Will: Source Incompatibilism1.4 The IssuesChapter 2: Free Will and the Good2.1 Choice, the Good, and Teleology2.2 Reasons and Choice2.3 Moral Character and Agency2.4 Moral Character and HabitChapter 3: The Primal Sin3.1 Introduction3.2 Katherin Rogers on Anselm3.3 Scott MacDonald on Augustine3.4 Taking StockChapter 4: Realigning a Fallen Will4.1 Introduction4.2 Grace and Theological Determinism4.3 Non-deterministic Grace4.4 Stump on Grace and Faith4.5 Refraining, Quasi-causing, and Control4.6 ConclusionChapter 5: Damned Freedom5.1 Introduction5.2 The Traditional Doctrine of Hell5.3 The Choice Model of Hell5.4 Death and Psychological Impossibility5.5 Overcoming Two Objections5.6 ConclusionChapter 6: Perfected Freedom6.1 Introduction6.2 Virtue Libertarianism in Heaven6.3 Warding Off Objections6.4 Moral Perfection and Purgatory6.5 ConclusionChapter 7: Divine Freedom7.1 Virtue Libertarianism and History7.2 Morriston on Moral Freedom and History7.3 Divine Freedom and Moral Freedom7.4 God’s Freedom as the Truest Freedom7.5 Divine Freedom God’s Choice to CreateBibliographyIndex

This is a splendid contribution to the literature on free will. Set in the borderlands between philosophy and theology, Timpe’s work shows how a substantial vision of free will can be integrated into a robust account of sin and grace. The concepts deployed are clear, the arguments articulated are felicitous, and the overall result is a book worthy of our closest attention.