Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introductory.
• Divine Omniscience, Omnipotence and Future Contingents: An Overview.
• Nos Ipsi Principia Sumus: Boethius and the Basis of Contingency.
• Islamic Perspectives.
• Wrongdoing and Divine Omnipotence in the Theology of Ab? Is?? q An-Na??? m.
• Can God do What is Wrong?.
• Divine Omniscience and Future Contingents in Alfarabi and Avicenna.
• Some Reflections on the Problem of Future Contingency in Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.
• Jewish Perspectives.
• The Binding of Isaac: A Test-Case of Divine Foreknowledge.
• Philosophical Exegesis in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Binding of Isaac.
• Providence, Divine Omniscience and Possibility: The Case of Maimonides.
• Divine Omniscience, Contingency and Prophecy in Gersonides.
• Christian Perspectives.
• Divine Omnipotence in the Early Sentences.
• Divine Knowledge, Divine Power and Human Freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent.
• The Dialectic of Omnipotence in the High and Late Middle Ages.