Van Inwagen's consequence argument shows that if determinism is true, no agent is the ultimate source of their actions, which would strip the theistic God of the libertarian agency classical theism requires.
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determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
ultimate source(Used to characterize God's agency as meeting a sourcehood condition for freedom)
The condition in which nothing is causally or explanatorily prior to the agent's choice; the agent's will is the originating cause of the action.
van Inwagen(as a philosopher being cited as a necessitarian)
Peter van Inwagen is a contemporary American philosopher who studies questions about what exists, what it means to exist, and whether God must exist.