Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, And Future Contingents

by William of Ockham, Norman Kretzmann (Translator), Marilyn McCord Adams (Translator )

Includes an introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams along with Notes and Appendices.

Are passive predestination and passive foreknowledge real relations in the person who is predestinate and foreknown? --
In respect of all future contingents does God have determinate, certain, infallible, immutable, necessary cognition of one part of a contradiction? --
How can the contingency of the will, both created and uncreated, be preserved in the case of its causing something external? That is, can the will, as naturally prior to the caused act, cause the opposite act at the same instant at which it causes that act, or can it at another, subsequent instant cause the opposite act or cease from that caused act?

Is there a cause of predestination in the predestinate and a cause of reprobation in the reprobate? --
In view of the fact that the propositions 'Peter is predestinate' and 'Peter is reprobate' are opposites, why cannot the one succeed the other in truth?

Genres: Philosophy, Theology, Religion

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1324

About the author

William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings, IPA: /ˈɒkəm/) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Averroes (ibn Rushd in the Middle East), to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. Although commonly known for Occam's Razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. In the Church of England, his day of commemoration is April 10.

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