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An Empire of Reason - Are We Free?
The free-will defense answered the problem of evil — but it rested on one claim: that we are free. So this episode puts freedom itself on trial, against a God who knows the future before it happens and ordains all things. It is the deepest question in the season, and Scripture itself refuses to release either end of it, commanding us to choose on one page and calling us clay in the potter’s hand on the next.
Then come the great answers, in the words of the thinkers who gave them: Augustine against Pelagius on grace and the will; Boethius, from his cell, dissolving the riddle of foreknowledge…
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