Libre arbitre et prédestination dans l'islam et le christianisme oriental arabe, VIIe-XIIIe siècle

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The human person's relationship with God is the main preoccupation of any religion. Now this relation is conceived as having two aspects: free will and predetermination. This is why this question has been the subject of discussion and controversy in the history of religious thought and became early on a subject of discussion between Muslim Mutakallimuns and Christian theologians belonging to the different eastern churches. The present work intends to introduce this interreligious debate by presenting texts of some of the Christian authors who wrote in Arabic. While defending human free will, these authors tried to reconcile it with the divide omnipotence, with god's foreknowledge and providence. At the same time, they tried to respond to existential questions like the problem of evil and the inequalities among persons. And they attempted, finally, to present the Christian conception of the relationship between God and the human person.

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