This week we return to the question of divine freedom and, with it, the question of divine rationality. But first we talk about Jon’s boring hobbies, Robyn’s preoccupation with after market truck modifications and a surprising part of the male anatomy, as well as Ryan’s disappointment with your favorite Jane Jacobs documentaries. Then, before we turn directly to the question of divine freedom, Jon rehashes the account of extrinsic predication and Robyn raises a question about how human agency changes us as agents. When we do turn to consider freedom, we first present a couple of common, alternative accounts of liberty, one “negative” and the other “positive,” but then Jon drops his hot take: rationality makes agency free. But now we’re really backed into a corner, because we have to ask: what’s rationality? Even worse, how can this attribution of rationality be applied to God, in whom there is no discursive reasoning? How do we find our way out of this pickle? Listen and see, but here’s a hint: you probably learned the answer in Sunday School. We also circle back to Robyn’s questions about ethics.

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