In Defence of Open Theism
In Defence of Open Theism
Richard Swinburne
ABSTRACT
In 1965 Nelson Pike presented his very clear version of an ancient argument purporting to show that a temporal God (that is, one who exists at all moments of time), could not have infallible knowledge of any future causally undetermined contingent event, and so – if there are any such events - could not be essentially omniscient, in the sense of having infallible knowledge of all true propositions. Given the assumption that human free actions are causally underdetermined, this entails that such a God cannot at any time have infallible knowledge of which future actions humans will do freely.
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December 2017
Vol. 4, Sp. Iss. 2 Pages 1-101
