“Open Theism as a Response to Theological Fatalism”

According to theological fatalism there is no libertarian freewill. That’s because God’s infallible foreknowledge is incompatible with creature’s freewill. Those who didn’t accept theological fatalism can be proponents of one of these three ideas: there is no God, God doesn’t have exhaustive infallible foreknowledge and that the infallible foreknowledge of God can be compatible with human freewill in some way. One part of this thesis is about the idea and arguments of theological fatalism. Another one is about open theism, its nature, various versions of it and arguments for openness. These two parts lead readers to the response of an open theist to theological fatalism. The common idea in all versions of open theism is that God hasn’t foresight free actions infalliblly. Different versions of open theism has their own reasons to believe in such an idea. So the response of open theism to theological fatalism is that there is no infallible foreknowledge of voluntary actions to be incompatible with their voluntariness. Another thing one can find in this thesis is an account of answers to theological fatalism. This along with the other part about critics of open theism and what has been said in favour of it, can provide a better understanding of open theism’s response to theological fatalism and also give us some criteria for evaluating it.