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Is free-will theism religiously inadequate? A reply to Ciocchi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2003

WILLIAM HASKER
WILLIAM HASKER
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Huntington College, Huntington, IN 46750
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Abstract

David Ciocchi has charged that ‘open’ or free-will theism is religiously inadequate. This is it is because it is unable to affirm the ‘presumption of divine intervention in response to petitionary prayer’ (PDI), a presumption Ciocchi claims is implicit in the religious practice of ordinary Christian believers. I argue that PDI and Ciocchi's other assumptions concerning prayer are too strong, and would upon reflection be rejected by most believers. On the other hand, God as conceived by free-will theism has extensive resources for answering petitionary prayers, including prayers whose fulfilment depends on the free responses of other persons.

Type
A reply to Ciocchi
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 431 - 440
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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