Since H. P. Owen's entry there has been considerable work on Western theism's standard roster of divine attributes. One of the most-discussed, eternity, has its own entry. This entry notes developments on three others.

Divine Foreknowledge: the Problem

Many biblical passages ascribe to God knowledge of what we will freely do in the future. But a now-standard argument (derived from Boethius) contends that no future creaturely action can be both foreknown and free. Suppose that for some act A, God believed yesterday that I do A tomorrow.

God is infallible. He cannot make a mistake. That is,

1. Necessarily, for all P, if God believed yesterday that P, then P. So,
2. Necessarily, if God believed yesterday that I do A tomorrow, I do A tomorrow.
3. If God believed yesterday that I do A tomorrow and it is in my power not to do...