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Some reflections on predestination, providence and divine foreknowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

B. L. Hebblethwaite
B. L. Hebblethwaite
Affiliation:
Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge
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It might appear to be beyond question, for Christian theism, both that God is omniscient and that omniscience includes knowledge of future truth. For it seems obvious that if P is true, then an omniscient being knows that P. P, in this propositional function, is entirely general, and must therefore include propositions of the form: ‘it will be the case that X’. If, truly, it will be the case that X, then God knows that truth.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 433 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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