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Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views

Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views

Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views
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Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views Paper back - 2001

by Contribution by Gregory A. Boyd; Contribution by David Hunt; Contribution by William Lane Craig

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InterVarsity Press, November 2001. Paper Back. Good. Firm binding; occasional marginalia to text; light general shelfwear
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  • Title Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views
  • Author Contribution by Gregory A. Boyd; Contribution by David Hunt; Contribution by William Lane Craig
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition EXCELLENT READER
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 221
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher InterVarsity Press, Westmont, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date November 2001
  • Features Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 240354
  • ISBN 9780830826520 / 0830826521
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.02 x 0.64 in (22.81 x 15.29 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Category Religion - Theology
  • Library of Congress subjects Free will and determinism, God (Christianity) - Omniscience
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001039355
  • Dewey Decimal Code 231
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

The question of the nature of God's foreknowledge and how that relates to human freedom has been pondered and debated by Christian theologians at least since the time of Augustine. And the issue will not go away.

More recently, the terms of the debate have shifted, and the issue has taken on new urgency with the theological proposal known as the openness of God. This view maintains that God's knowledge, while perfect, is limited regarding the future inasmuch as the future is "open" and not settled. This Spectrum Multiview volume provides a venue for well-known proponents of four distinct views of divine foreknowledge to present their cases:

  • Gregory A. Boyd of Bethel College presents the open-theism view.
  • David Hunt of Whittier College weighs in on the simple-foreknowledge view.
  • William Lane Craig of Talbot School of Theology takes the middle-knowledge view.
  • Paul Helm of Regent College, Vancouver, presents the Augustinian-Calvinist view.

All four respond to each of the other essayists, noting points of agreement and disagreement. Editors James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy introduce the contemporary debate and also offer a conclusion that helps you evaluate therelative strengths and weaknesses of each view. The result is a unique opportunity to grapple with the issues and arguments and frame your own understanding of this important debate.

Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

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The debate over the nature of God's foreknowledge is not primarily a debate about the scope or perfection of God's knowledge.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 10/29/2001, Page 60

About the author

Paul R. Eddy (Ph.D., Marquette University) is Professor of Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include John Hick's Pluralist Philosophy of World Religions (Ashgate), Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology (with G. A. Boyd, Baker) and Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views (with James Beilby IVP).


Gregory A. Boyd (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is a pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Previously, he was a professor of theology at Bethel University, also in St. Paul. His books include Recovering the Real Jesusin an Age of Revisionist Replies, Letters from a Skeptic, God of the Possible, Repenting of Religion, Seeing is Believing, Escaping the Matrix, The Jesus Legend, Myth of a Christian Nation, Is God to Blame, God at War and Satan and the Problem of Evil.


William Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen, Germany) is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers. Craig has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; God, Time, and Eternity; and God and Abstract Objects, as well as over 150 articles in professional publications of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.


Paul Helm (1940-2025) was a teaching fellow in theology and philosophy at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. From 1993 to 2000 he taught as professor of the history and philosophy of religion at King's College, University of London. Hepublished numerous books and articles, including Eternal God: A Study of God Without Time (Oxford University Press, 1988), Belief Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and Faith and Understanding (Eerdmans, 1997).


James Beilby (PhD, Marquette University) is professor of systematic and philosophical theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Thinking About Christian Apologetics and Epistemology as Theology, the editor of Naturalism Defeated?, and the coeditor of numerous volumes, including The Nature of the Atonement, Divine Foreknowledge, The Historical Jesus, and Justification. His written work has appeared in publications such as Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

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