of any kind. This supposed ability of our wills to choose with equal facility either of any two alternatives presented to it by the mind, is the essence of the “liberty of indifference,” the free will theory which Aquinas found in the early post-apostolic fathers, and which Catholics, Pelagians, Arminians, and modern Evangelicals generally, think is the basis of our humanness and responsibility. When we read those early church fathers who were closest to the Apostles (called
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