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Divine Foreknowledge and Facts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Paul Helm
Paul Helm*
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University of Liverpool
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In “Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom” [6] Anthony Kenny returns to a ‘very old difficulty’ stated by Aquinas at Summa Theologiae Ia, 14, 3, 3. Kenny rejects the Thomistic strategy of treating God as an atemporal knower, Who grasps all events of history simultaneously in a timeless present. He takes this notion to be neither Biblical nor coherent. He hopes instead to reconcile a temporal God's literal foreknowledge with free action among men. I shall follow Kenny in treating the concept of God as a temporal being. But I shall argue against the attempts of Kenny and some other recent writers to provide a reconciliation.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , December 1974 , pp. 305 - 315
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Copyright © The Authors 1974

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