Free Will in Philosophical Theology takes the most recent philosophical work on free will and uses it to elucidate and explore theological doctrines involving free will. Rather than being a work of natural theology, it is a work in what has been called clarification-using philosophy to understand, develop, systematize, and explain theological claims without first raising the justification for holding the theological claims that one is working with. Timpe's aim is to show how a particular philosophical account of the nature of free will-an account known as source incompatibilism-can help us understand a range of theological doctrines.

DedicationAcknowledgements Chapter 1: The Importance and Nature of Free Will1.1 Introduction1.2 Philosophical Theology1.3 The Nature of Free Will: Source Incompatibilism1.4 The IssuesChapter 2: Free Will and the Good2.1 Choice, the Good, and Teleology2.2 Reasons and Choice2.3 Moral Character and Agency2.4 Moral Character and HabitChapter 3: The Primal Sin3.1 Introduction3.2 Katherin Rogers on Anselm3.3 Scott MacDonald on Augustine3.4 Taking StockChapter 4: Realigning a Fallen Will4.1 Introduction4.2 Grace and Theological Determinism4.3 Non-deterministic Grace4.4 Stump on Grace and Faith4.5 Refraining, Quasi-causing, and Control4.6 ConclusionChapter 5: Damned Freedom5.1 Introduction5.2 The Traditional Doctrine of Hell5.3 The Choice Model of Hell5.4 Death and Psychological Impossibility5.5 Overcoming Two Objections5.6 ConclusionChapter 6: Perfected Freedom6.1 Introduction6.2 Virtue Libertarianism in Heaven6.3 Warding Off Objections6.4 Moral Perfection and Purgatory6.5 ConclusionChapter 7: Divine Freedom7.1 Virtue Libertarianism and History7.2 Morriston on Moral Freedom and History7.3 Divine Freedom and Moral Freedom7.4 God's Freedom as the Truest Freedom7.5 Divine Freedom God's Choice to CreateBibliographyIndex