Research Catalog
Anselm on freedom
- Title
- Anselm on freedom / Katherin A. Rogers.
- Author
- Rogers, Katherin A.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | B765.A84 R63 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 217 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there by any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? Anselm answers these questions with a sophisticated theory of free will which defends both human freedom and the sovereignty and goodness of God. Katherin Rogers examines Anselm's reconciliation of human free will and divine omnipotence in the context of current philosophical debates."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-211) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Anselm's classical theism -- The Augustinian legacy -- The purpose, definition, and structure of free choice -- Alternative possibilities and primary agency -- The causes of sin and the intelligibility problem -- Creaturely freedom and God as Creator Omnium -- Grace and free will -- Foreknowledge, freedom, and eternity : part I, the problem and historical background -- Foreknowledge, freedom, and eternity : part II, Anselm's solution -- The freedom of God.
- ISBN
- 9780199231676
- 0199231672
- LCCN
- 2008016744
- OCLC
- ocn214305922
- 214305922
- SCSB-9463553
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library