Socinianism and Free Will

Joanna Usakiewicz; Przemysław Gut

doi:10.18290/rf24723.3

Published : 2024-09-27

Vol. 72 No. 3 (2024)

Socinianism and Free Will

Joanna Usakiewicz

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-4024

Przemysław Gut

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-0373

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf24723.3

Abstract

The present article discusses the Socinian views on free will based on fragments of Johann Völkel’s treatise, De Vera Religione Libri Quinque. Quibus praefixus est Johannis Crelli Franci Liber De Deo et Ejus Attributis ita ut unum cum illis opus constituat, published by Typis Sebastiani Sternacii, Raków, 1630 (bk. 5, chap. 18). This work is considered the most comprehensive systematic presentation of the Socinian doctrine. The article focuses on two questions: first, the way in which Völkel argues for the existence of free will; and second, the manner in which he disproves the arguments of his opponents who claim that man forfeited the freedom of his will as a result of the Fall of Adam.

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Völkel, Socinian, free will

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