Emergent Freedom

Naturalizing Free Will

by James W Haag, foreword by Terrence Deacon

Book cover: Emergent Freedom

Extent: 247 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science

Series volume number: 17

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2008)

ISBN: 9783525569887

Price: $99.00

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Emergentism, as a metaphysical option between Reductive Physicalism and Substance Dualism, provides a space for free will to be both experientially balanced and evidentially accurate. By expanding notions of causation and adopting a process ontology, Emergentism revaluates age-old commitments to human free will. With Emergentism, James W. Haag believes Philip Hefner’s model of human being (the created co-creator) to be a valuable place to look for dialogue. Hefner’s claim that the created co-creator is simultaneously constrained and free fits securely with Dynamic Theological Naturalism and its acceptance of Emergentism.

  • By (author) James W Haag
  • Foreword by Terrence Deacon