Perfect Will Theology

Divine Agency in Reformed Scholasticism as Against Suárez, Episcopius, Descartes, and Spinoza
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18290-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 566 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

This book revisits four early-modern debates of Reformed theology concerning the will of God. Reformed scholasticism advocated a particular relationship between divine knowledge, will, and power, which was altered by Jesuits, Remonstrants, Descartes, and Spinoza. In all these debates modal categories like contingency and necessity play a prominent part. Therefore, these positions are evaluated with the help of modern modal logic including possible world semantics. The final part of this study presents a systematic defense of the Reformed position, which has been charged of theological determinism and of making God the author of sin. In modern terms, therefore, the relation of divine and human freedom and the problem of evil are discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bac, J Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

J. Martin Bac, Ph. D. (2008) in Theology, Protestant Theological University, Utrecht, has published on Reformed scholasticism and its medieval background, including "Reformed Thought on Freedom. The Concept of Free Choice in the History of Early-Modern Reformed Theology" (edited with Willem J. van Asselt and Roelf T. te Velde (Grand Rapids, forthcoming 2010).