Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy [electronic resource] : Islamic, Jewish and Christian Perspectives /

Introductory -- Divine Omniscience, Omnipotence and Future Contingents: An Overview -- Nos Ipsi Principia Sumus: Boethius and the Basis of Contingency -- Islamic Perspectives -- Wrongdoing and Divine Omnipotence in the Theology of Ab? Is??q An-Na???m -- Can God do What is Wrong? -- Divine Omniscience and Future Contingents in Alfarabi and Avicenna -- Some Reflections on the Problem of Future Contingency in Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes -- Jewish Perspectives -- The Binding of Isaac: A Test-Case of Divine Foreknowledge -- Philosophical Exegesis in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Binding of Isaac -- Providence, Divine Omniscience and Possibility: The Case of Maimonides -- Divine Omniscience, Contingency and Prophecy in Gersonides -- Christian Perspectives -- Divine Omnipotence in the Early Sentences -- Divine Knowledge, Divine Power and Human Freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent -- The Dialectic of Omnipotence in the High and Late Middle Ages.