Honors Program Theses

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Open Access Honors Program Thesis

First Advisor

Reza Lahroodi, advisor

Keywords

God--Omniscience; Free will and determinism; Open theism;

Abstract

This paper examines the compatibility of God's foreknowledge and human free will. To narrow the focus of this question, this paper will focus on a branch of this debate by analyzing the arguments of Open Theism. By analyzing the claims made within Open Theism, with respect to its proposal that God can be omniscient while granting free will, it will be possible to determine if this claim is a valid argument as to how humanity can have free will without limiting the scope of God. This paper will focus on an Open Theist critique of the traditional understanding of God’s divine foreknowledge as encompassing all free choices and actions.

Year of Submission

2018

Department

Department of Philosophy and World Religions

University Honors Designation

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors

Date Original

5-2018

Object Description

1 PDF file (29 pages)

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

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