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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Heath WhitePublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.790kg ISBN: 9780268106294ISBN 10: 0268106290 Pages: 406 Publication Date: 30 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsContemporary philosophy of religion has been dominated by approaches that assume a very robust libertarianism about free will and have unsurprisingly been accompanied by a diminished view of divine sovereignty. W. Heath White's Fate and Free Will is a welcome counterweight. Beginning instead with a very robust account of divine sovereignty that precludes libertarianism, White shows how much progress can be made on thorny theological issues without sacrificing a strong conception of God as determiner of all that was, is, and ever will be. -Mark C. Murphy, Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Religious Philosophy, Georgetown University Theological determinism has in recent decades not received the attention devoted to various versions of theological libertarianism, and this state of affairs is best corrected. Fate and Free Will promises to be the best current book-length philosophical treatment of theological determinism from a Christian perspective. It is in addition accessible to undergraduates and to the college-educated public. -Derk Pereboom, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University Instead of engaging in the all-too-common and often unilluminating low road of argument and counterexample, Heath White primarily takes what he calls the high road of explanation. He is always asking why and proposing thoughtful and systematic answers. What results is a series of theories: theories of prayer, of punishment, of blame, of free will, even of the meaning of life, all connected to the overarching theologically determinist theory of divine providence. If you want to wrestle with genuinely deep and thorough attempts to get to the bottom of things, I can't recommend anything on the subject more highly. -Daniel M. Johnson, Shawnee State University Theological determinism has in recent decades not received the attention devoted to various versions of theological libertarianism, and this state of affairs is best corrected. Fate and Free Will promises to be the best current book-length philosophical treatment of theological determinism from a Christian perspective. It is in addition accessible to undergraduates and to the college-educated public. --Derk Pereboom, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University Author InformationHeath White is professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and the author of a number of books, including Inferentialism and Practical Reason: Towards a New Theory of Practical Reasoning, Intention, Desire, and Evaluative Belief. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |