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The Eternal Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

DON LODZINSKI
DON LODZINSKI
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Abstract

As a personal agent, God's act of creation involves deliberation about His possible courses of action, a decision to act in a certain way, and the execution of that decision. In this paper, I argue that there is good reason to suppose that God's deliberation of the possible worlds cannot make Him temporal. Furthermore, whether we favour a deterministic and indeterministic version of freedom, a model can be constructed of how God timelessly decides to create this world and respond to His creatures. Finally, I argue that the problem of how God executes His decision dissolves, if we adopt a pantheistic viewpoint. This rather unorthodox viewpoint is compatible with other important theistic doctrines.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 325 - 352
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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