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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Foreknowledge"”.
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Future Contingents, Freedom, And Foreknowledge
<p>This essay is a contribution to the new trend and old tradition of analyzing theological fatalism in light of its relationship to logical fatalism. All results pertain to branching temporal systems that use the A-theory and assume presentism. The project focuses on two kinds of views about …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
… and Omniscience (all-knowing). God’s foreknowledge is a subset of God’s Omniscience and refers to his knowledge of the future. Many authors have discussed this idea and the philosophical soundness of the concept. They include St. Augustine, John Calvin, David Hunt, Luis de Molina and …
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The Meaning of Foreknowledge in Romans 8:29 and Its Ecclesiastical Implications
ABSTRACT THE MEANING OF FOREKNOWLEDGE IN ROMANS 8:29 AND ITS ECCLESIASTICAL IMPLICATIONS Steven Kyle Rader, D.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Faculty Supervisor: Dr. William F. Cook, III This thesis examines the relationship between foreknowledge and election in Romans 8:29 and …
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The rule of express terms and the limits of fellowship in the Stone-Campbell movement: T. W. Brents, a test case
… of T. W. Brents' unorthodox doctrine of limited foreknowledge was likely a consistent application of the rule of express terms. It focuses on the nineteenth century figure, T. W. Brents, who was found to have composed the movement's most comprehensive doctrine of limited foreknowledge. He serves …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… a clear and rational understanding of how foreknowledge, predestination and grace are compatible with human freedom. Drawing from Anselm's thought on this topic and considering its treatment by others, especially Augustine and Boethius, this study proposes three theories which articulate …
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Task Switching in Predictable and Unpredictable Cases
… absolute certainty while in the other half no foreknowledge regarding the upcoming task was provided. In all of the experiments, switch costs were found to be smaller when no task foreknowledge was provided relative to when task foreknowledge was available. Chapter 2 provided evidence regarding …
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Self-Efficacy and Self-Care in the Hypertensive Female Patient
… was given an interactive treatment plan with foreknowledge of what their physicians would probably do at their next office visits should the patients’ blood pressures not be under control, 3) a Question Asking Intervention (QAI) group that was instructed and encouraged to increase their …
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J-Horror : A discourse in cross-cultural communication and cinematic hybridity
… message still requires a certain amount of foreknowledge. J-Horror, the common term for Japanese horror among fans, is a sub- genre of Horror that has been catapulted into Hollywood's limelight due to adaptations such as The Ring (2002). Based upon a novel, Ringu, by Koji Suzuki and Nakata …
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Do executives get more pay prior to deteriorations of firm performance?
… both of which are signals of top managers’ foreknowledge about future poor performance. Moreover, this phenomenon is more significant in firms with more entrenched CEOs. I also find intensive scrutiny from active shareholders effectively mitigates such behavior. This finding supports the …
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The Impact of Prior Communication About Organizational Turbulence On Members’ Perceptions During Institutional Change
… a conceptual framework to explore the level of foreknowledge of select faculty stakeholders at a college whose university was in the process of a significant change plan. The researcher used semi-structured, one-on-one interviews with 10 faculty stakeholders who were employed by the college. The …
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Anomalous Eurasian snow extent and the wintertime AO
… densely populated regions by enabling greater foreknowledge of energy demands, precipitation intensity, and storm frequency, it is currently not particularly skillful. Previous studies have demonstrated a link between autumn snow over Eurasia and the AO mode and have proposed a dynamical …
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The Salvation of the Unevangelized: A Comparative Analysis of the views of Clark H. Pinnock and Millard J. Erickson
… and angelic appearances, (2) his view on divine foreknowledge, and (3) his postmortem encounter view. I propose an improved inclusivist model in which general revelation excludes divine dreams, visions, and angelic appearances. In this model, general revelation has five elements: nature, history, …
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Transitions to Assisted Living Within a Continuing Care Retirement Community
… and adjusting to the transition. Older women had foreknowledge of the on-campus assisted living and had their names on the waiting list. Even with facility familiarity and family and staff assistance, the move was challenging, and adjustment was difficult when participants had physical or sensory …
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Anticipated work-nonwork balance and conflict as predictors of job choice: Identity salience as moderator
… individual job choice decision making with the foreknowledge that such choices will impact the quality of a person’s future work-nonwork roles. It is likely that job applicants have at least some anticipation of the work-nonwork conflict (WNC) and work-nonwork balance (WNB) they will face if …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… in open theism, affirming God limited his foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples by any means necessary so that …
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
… on the page are free individuals. No amount of foreknowledge, on our part or theirs, can save us (or them) from tragedy’s horror.
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God and Time: A Neo-Bergsonian Perspective
… applies this framework to the problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will. I demonstrate that although Bergson’s theory can defend the existence of human freedom, his thought needs to be supplanted with divine “causal knowledge” to guarantee divine omniscience.
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Clinical and ultrasonic estimation of fetal weight
… assessment of fetal weight prior to delivery. A foreknowledge of the mass of the fetus can influence management in circumstances complicated by, for example, a previous caesarean section, a breech presentation, a compromised fetus of borderline viability and a diabetic pregnancy at term. …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… in open theism, affirming God’s limited foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples by any means necessary so that …
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The Doctrine of Prevenient Grace in the Theology of Jacobus Arminius
… the relation between prevenient grace and divine foreknowledge also support the conclusion that prevenient grace is the organizing principle of Arminius’s soteriology.</p>
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