This week Ryan puts a question to us about divine freedom and Jon takes us into the weeds. But first, #NoTwitterRobyn wants to know which figures from the history of Western philosophy, theology, and literature would have been good at Twitter. Hegel: not so much. Luther: you better believe it! Then we turn to Lonergan’s retrieval of Thomas Aquinas’ appropriation and augmentation of Aristotle’s theory of agency/causality, explain Lonergan’s account of extrinsic predication, consider why the grammatical functions of predication might help at all with metaphysics, and how that metaphysics might be applied meaningfully to God. Then we *finally* turn to the question of divine freedom… mostly by considering answers that we’re pretty sure are wrong. For the right(?) answer, tune in to next week’s episode!

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