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Mizell, Stephen Douglas.

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A new essay on free will: Libertarianism, agent-causation, and their place in soteriology.

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Title/Author:	A new essay on free will: Libertarianism, agent-causation, and their place in soteriology./
Author:	Mizell, Stephen Douglas.
Description:	363 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3580298
ISBN:	9781303931321

A new essay on free will: Libertarianism, agent-causation, and their place in soteriology.
Mizell, Stephen Douglas.

A new essay on free will: Libertarianism, agent-causation, and their place in soteriology. - 363 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014.

This dissertation defends a Christian agent-causal theory of free will grounded in the decision of faith unto salvation. Using Robert Kane's four key questions as a paradigm, this defense consists of (i) a general theory that (a) answers the Compatibility and Significance Questions and (b) evaluates the options attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question, and (ii) a specific theory based on assumed ontological commitments that (a) gives a positive answer to the Intelligibility Question and (b) satisfies the demands of the Existence Question by offering a model of how free will does or could exist.

ISBN: 9781303931321Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

A new essay on free will: Libertarianism, agent-causation, and their place in soteriology.
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520 $a This dissertation defends a Christian agent-causal theory of free will grounded in the decision of faith unto salvation. Using Robert Kane's four key questions as a paradigm, this defense consists of (i) a general theory that (a) answers the Compatibility and Significance Questions and (b) evaluates the options attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question, and (ii) a specific theory based on assumed ontological commitments that (a) gives a positive answer to the Intelligibility Question and (b) satisfies the demands of the Existence Question by offering a model of how free will does or could exist.
520 $a Chapter 1 presents an overview of the free-will debate, noting the key issues and significant philosophical literature within that debate.
520 $a Part 1 presents my general theory of free will and consists of three chapters. Chapter 2 begins an answer to the Compatibility Question, clarifying the definitions of determinism, compatibilism, and libertarianism and arguing that compatibilism is prima facie incoherent. Chapter 3 completes the answer to Compatibility Question as well as the Significance Question, arguing that compatibilist attempts to redefine free will without alternate possibilities fail. Chapter 4 begins answering the Intelligibility Question by assessing various libertarian models of free will, concluding that all fail unless one assumes a theistic outlook.
520 $a Part 2 presents my specific theory of free will and also consists of three chapters. Chapters 5 and 6 complete my answer to the Intelligibility Question. Chapter 5 presents my Christian agent-causal theory, arguing that free will is an essential active power of human beings deriving from the fact that they are essentially moral agents. Chapter 6 analyzes Augustine's views on free will (which I argue remain libertarian throughout his lifetime). My purpose there is to ground the theory of chapter 5 in the Christian tradition and to introduce key concepts important for fleshing out my agent-causal theory. Chapter 7 answers the Existence Question by presenting a model of free will that grounds it in what I think is the only context that Christianity leaves available: the decision of faith. There, I hope to show how my theory of free will aligns with what Scripture says about God initiating and accomplishing our salvation.
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