Annotated Bibliography:

Free Will vs. Predistination

From a Religious/Theological point of view:

1. http://www.yutopian.com/religion/theology/Calvinism.html (Calvinism vs. Arminian)

2. http://www.cybersalt.org/cw/bpsaysomethingnice.htm (cartoon)

3. http://home.rochester.rr.com/matthewl/predestination/main.html (pro-predestination but very comprehensive).

4. http://www.icgatlanta.org/predestinationl.htm (Paper giving an overview of this debate in church history)

5. http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/predestination.html (Bible teaches both views)

6.http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/arg/blatheo_osci_freewill.htm (Atheistic view)

7.http://www.christiancommunitychurch.us/predstudy.html (a Churches’ inquiry )

8. http://answering-islam.org.uk/Books/Zwemer/God/chap7.htm (Islamic position)

9. http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1997_6/0021.html (Hindu position)

10. http://www.netivot-shalom.org.il/parshaeng/vaera5764.php (Jewish perspective)

11. http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/num21.htm (Catholicism vs. Calvinism)

12. http://mural.uv.es/jauau/1.html (Pelgianism vs Augustianism)

13. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm (Historical Overview)

From an Economic point of view:

http://www.gordon.edu/ace/pdf/Allen_FreeWill.pdf (applies principles in #1 to econ)

From a Philosophic point of view:

1. http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Free_Will (w/ links to Turing, LaPlace’s demon, the Arminian heresy,etc)

2. http://216.239.39.104/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.open.org%2F~bbm%2Fmuse%2Fnotions%2FSchrodinger's%2520Cat%2FSchrodinger's%2520Cat.html (Free Will, Predestination, and Schrodinger’s Cat)

3 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeWill

4 http://www.rationality.net/freewill.htm (excerpt from "How the World Really Works)

5. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/

Comprehensive Bibliography of Related Texts:

- http://www.talbot.edu/programs/maph/resources/freewill_deter_bib.pdf

 

Examples of this debate in popular media: fiction/movies,etc

-Renaissance :http://www.nd.edu/~erasmus/fellows_research/2camporeale_projects.html

-in games&puzzles : http://bioc.rice.edu/~lpsmith/IF/bookclub/suspended/msg00126.html

-in "Lord of the Rings": http://www.thetolkienforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1051.html

- "The World Jones Made"–came up frequently

- in Oedipus Rex : http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/Oedipusforum/_oedipus/000006a3.htm

- in "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess