How Long to Read The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence by T. Ryan Byerly

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.

How long is The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence?

The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence by T. Ryan Byerly is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence aloud.

What Reading Level is The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence?

The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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