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- Title
'All is Foreseen, and Freedom of Choice is Granted': A Scotistic Examination of God's Freedom, Divine Foreknowledge and the Arbitrary Use of Power.
- Authors
Gordon, Liran Shia
- Abstract
The article analyzes God's freedom, divine foreknowledge and the arbitrary use of power and its relation to values and justice from the perspective of Scottish Catholic priest Duns Scotus. Topics discussed are relations between God's omniscience and omnipotence and His foreknowledge of the future, difference of freedom of God from freedom of man, distinction between a rightful act according to the ordained being and the power to act absolutely.
- Subjects
LIBERTY &; Christianity; OMNISCIENCE (Theory of knowledge); OMNIPOTENCE of God; VALUES (Ethics); JUSTICE (Virtue); POWER (Christian theology); RIGHT &; wrong; DUNS Scotus, John, ca. 1266-1308
- Publication
Heythrop Journal, 2019, Vol 60, Issue 5, p711
- ISSN
0018-1196
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/heyj.12819