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The question of the nature of God’s foreknowledge and how that relates to human freedom has been pondered and debated by Christian theologians at least since the time of Augustine. And the issue will not go away. More recently, the terms of the debate have shifted, and the issue has taken on new urgency with the theological proposal known as the openness of God. This view maintains that God’s...

Paul Helm I have been invited to contribute to this volume an essay on divine foreknowledge and human freedom as viewed from the tradition of Augustine of Hippo and John Calvin. The issue, as classically stated, is whether divine omniscience, as far as it is concerned with the future, is logically consistent with human freedom, where this is understood in an incompatibilist sense.1 The endless discussions of this issue have been motivated by the underlying assumption
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