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On Not Confusing Necessity with Compulsion: a Reply to Paul Helm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Vincent Brümmer
Vincent Brümmer
Affiliation:
Faculty of Theology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80105, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Extract

This paper responds to Helm's rebuttal of Brummer's account of Bernard and Calvin in Religious Studies 30, 4. It contends that Helm confuses indeterminism with nondeterminism and that a clear distinction between freedom from necessity and freedom from compulsion must be drawn. Contra Helm, there is still a contradiction between Calvin's defence of freedom from compulsion and his account of the perseverance of God's grace.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 105 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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References

1 Sutherland, , ‘Religion, ethics and action’, in Hebblethwaite, B. and Sutherland, S. R. (eds.), The Philosophical Frontiers of Christian Theology (Cambridge, 1982), 160f.Google Scholar See also chapter 7 of my What are we doing when we Pray? (London, 1964).Google Scholar