THE ROLE OF DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN FREEDOM IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY

Authors

  • Alexander Carter School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Keywords:

Divine (D), Foreknowledge (F), Human Freedom (HF), Contemporary Religious Epistemology (CRE)

Abstract

Studies resolve the applied subject of how heavenly faith might be perceived inside the Monotheistic confidence customs. Subsequent to recognizing a few conceivable states of faith inside the thoughtful writing, scholars exhibit two or three faith situations for exhibiting that heavenly belief isn't just reasonably conceivable (for example, viable with heavenly premonition). Yet, that heavenly belief is foremost understood as specific belief category - helpful belief. Specifically, research contends that heavenly belief targets motivating humanity's reliability. Scholar raises a design of a general philosophy that forgoes "elective prospects" opportunity for "real succession" opportunity. Researchers believe that behaving openly doesn't mean an opportunity to perform in any case, & that behaving uninhibitedly is the opportunity part of ethical obligation. Utilizing such logical contraptions, scholars demonstrate that they might provide different significant components of a religious philosophy that utilizes just the thought of performing unreservedly. According to McNabb, divine foreknowledge is comprised of trustworthiness. For example, if God knows at creation time that I will get the coffee by tomorrow for breakfast, then it is sure that I will get it for breakfast. God cannot be mistaken about what He knows; what is in the past cannot be changed. God's foreknowledge includes not just knowing future actions but also knowing all factual statements about the future.

Published

2024-09-07

How to Cite

Alexander Carter. 2024. “THE ROLE OF DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN FREEDOM IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 16 (2):224-38. https://philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/4446.

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Research Articles