Divine Causation and Human Freedo...
Divine Causation and Human Freedom with Dr. W. Matthews Grant
Think for Christ por Dr. Anthony Alberino
4 ago 2025
01:16:15
Notas del episodio

When it comes to the question of divine and human agency, the prevailing view among Christian theologians and philosophers (not to mention Christian laypeople) is that it is zero sum game. In other words, the more agency God exercises over the human will, the less agency the human has. It seems like we have to make a choice here. We have to either choose to uphold God’s universal causality and diminish human freedom or choose to uphold human freedom and diminish God’s causality. But, in his book Free Will and God’s Universal Causality, Dr. W. Matthews Grant denies that such a choice has to be made. Dr. Grant argues that by embracing a Dual Sources Account, we can resolve the conflict between human freedom divine causality without diminishing either. In this episode of Think for Christ, Dr. W. Matthews Grant joins Anthony Alberino to talk about di ... 

Palabras clave
alberino
classical theism
thomas aquinas
anthony alberino
free will
divine causality
divine sovereignty
human freedom
libertarian freedom
divine providence
W. Matthews Grant
divine transcendence
predesitination
providence