Is Al Mohler a deterministic Calvinist? It does not seem so: So . . . Why Did I Write This? The Delusion of Determinism where he is responding to Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain.

As a matter of fact, this capacity and accountability is rooted in the biblical concept of the imago Dei — the image of God.   Our Creator made us as moral creatures and planted within us the capacity of conscience.  All this refutes the concept of moral determinism.

I’ve heard that rhetoric before, yet doesn’t Calvinism subscribe to moral determinism? [1]

Update: Tom corrected me on Calvinists describing themselves as (hard) determinists.  They subscribe to compatibilist soft determinism.  For more on this, see parableman’s posts on this topic:

  1. Determinism and Fatalism

  2. Arguments for Determinism

  3. Arguments for Free Will

  4. Freedom and Determinism: Possible Views

  5. Libertarian Freedom and Incompatibilism

  6. Problems with Libertarian Freedom

  7. Arguments for Compatibilism

  8. Compatibilist Freedom

  9. Moral Luck: The Cases

  10. Moral Luck: Responses

 

I myself subscribe to incompatibilist libertarianism, which Jeremy (and I assume Calvinists in general) rejects in favor of compatibilist soft determinism. 

  1. This is where I get the Calvinists to do my homework for me. [↩]