Theological Determinism

Peter Furlong is Professor of Philosophy at Valencia College in Orlando Florida. He is the author of The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, from Cambridge University Press (2019). Leigh Vicens is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Augustana University. She is co-author, with Simon Kittle, of the Cambridge Elements book God and Human Freedom (2019). Vicens serves as Book Review Editor for the journal Faith and Philosophy.

• Introduction; 1. Theological Determinism and Creation Heath White; 2. Am I Here by Accident? T. J. Mawson; 3. You Searched Me and Knew Me: Divine Determinism and the God of Love Jesse Couenhoven; 4. Fatalism and Some Varieties of Contrastive Explanation Alexander R. Pruss; 5. Divine Transcendence: Is There a Third Way in the Debate over Theological Determinism? W. Matthews Grant; 6. The Incompatibility of Universal, Determinate Divine Action with Human Free Will Simon Kittle; 7. Compatibilists about Moral Responsibility and (Natural) Determinism Should Be Compatibilists about Moral Responsibility and Theological Determinism Taylor Cyr; 8. An Argument for Theological Incompatibilism Alicia Finch; 9. Human Freedom and the Inevitability of Sin Leigh Vicens; 10. Hard Theological Determinism and Divine Forgiveness are Incompatible Justin Capes; 11. Moral Luck, Free Will Theodicies, and Theological Determinism Philip Swenson; 12. Divine Determinism and Gratitude for Sins Peter Furlong; 13. The Problem of Trust Daniel M. Johnson; 14. Toward a Reactive Attitudes Theodicy Garrett Pendergraft; 15. Christ in Gethsemane Katherine Sonderegger.

'This volume constitutes a rich conversation among a diverse group of authors on the question of divine determinism. The quality of argumentation is consistently high, and there are fresh developments, from multiple angles, of both pro and con positions. Easily the best exploration of this question in recent philosophy of religion.' Tim O'Connor, Indiana University Bloomington