Neither Libertarian nor Compatibilist

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" Neither Libertarian nor Compatibilist "
Richard A. Muller

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1073319
Doc. No	:	LA116948
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01303020‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard A. Muller
Title & Author	:	Neither Libertarian nor Compatibilist [Article]\ Richard A. Muller
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Reformed Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/3-4
Page No	:	267–286
Abstract	:	The present essay addresses Paul Helm’s most recent attempt to assimilate the thought of such Reformed scholastics as Francis Turretin to the ‘compatibilism’ of Jonathan Edwards. Helm has misunderstood a series of important scholastic distinctions concerning the relationship of intellect and will in the older faculty psychology, and the relationship of foundational or, as I identified it, ‘root’ indifference in the will to its multiple potencies. He has, accordingly, failed to register how Reformed orthodox understandings of free choice outlined in recent scholarship affirm both a simultaneity or synchronicity of potencies or capacities of the will and a diachronicity of actual effects and events. The Reformed orthodox writers certainly thought that human freedom was not incompatible with the divine determination of all things—their resolution of the issue does not, however, coincide with modern compatibilism.
Descriptor	:	compatibilism
Descriptor	:	contingency
Descriptor	:	free choice
Descriptor	:	freedom
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Helm
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	libertarianism
Descriptor	:	potency
Descriptor	:	Reformed orthodoxy
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	simultaneity
Descriptor	:	synchronic
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	Turretin
Descriptor	:	will
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697312-01303020‬