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The freedom of Christ and explanatory priority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2013

TIMOTHY PAWL
TIMOTHY PAWL*
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Department of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55105, USA e-mail: timpawl@stthomas.edu
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Abstract

Call the claim, common to many in the Christian intellectual tradition, that Christ, in virtue of his created human intellect, had certain, infallible, exhaustive foreknowledge the Foreknowledge Thesis. Now consider what I will call the Conditional: if the Foreknowledge Thesis is true, then Christ's created human will was not free. In so far as many, perhaps all, of the people who affirm the Foreknowledge Thesis also wish to affirm the freedom of Christ's human will, the truth of the Conditional would be most unwelcome to them. I consider an argument in support of the Conditional; I argue that it is not successful.

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Religious Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 157 - 173
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