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Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension is unavailable, but you can change that!

Both theology and philosophy wrestle with the tension between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. In Christianity, this tension is particularly acute because God is both omnipotent and benevolent. This tension underlies numerous other questions about the nature of God, the meaning of free will and choice, the concept of divine repentance, the reign of God, and perhaps most of all, the...

Both theology and philosophy wrestle with the tension which exists between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility (hereafter called the ‘sovereignty-responsibility tension’). Although not restricted to monotheistic religions,1 this tension is particularly acute there because pure monotheism excludes cosmological dualism and usually pictures God as both omnipotent and good. This monograph is concerned with the sovereignty-responsibility tension as delineated
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