Free Will and Classical Theism The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology

Hugh J. McCann taught in the philosophy department at Texas A&M University since 1968; he retired as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in 2014. He was the author of The Works of Agency, and Creation and the Sovereignty of God, and more than 50 articles and encyclopedia entries on action theory, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of art.

Contributors
Introduction

Part I. Central Issues
1. The Problem of Fr** W*ll Peter van Inwagen
2. Theological Fatalism as an Aporetic Problem David Hunt
3. Responsibility and Freedom Hugh J. McCann
4. Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense Michael Almeida

Part II. Historical Aspects
5. The Indicative in the Imperative: on Augustinian Oughts and Cans Jesse Couenhoven
6. Anselmian Alternatives and Frankfurt style Counterexamples Katherin Rogers
7. Libertarian Calvinism Oliver D. Crisp
Part III. Divine Freedom
8. The Best Thing in Life Is Free: The Compatibility of God's Freedom and his Essential Moral Perfection Kevin Timpe
9. Two Pictures of Divine Choice Brian Leftow

Part IV. Divine Omnicausality and Responsibility
10. Divine Universal Causality Without Occasionalism (and with Agent causation) W. Matthews Grant
11. Theological Determinism and the Relationship with God Derk Pereboom

Index