Nelson Pike
If God always knew what I will do, it seems I cannot do otherwise.
Life
American philosopher (1930-2010), professor at the University of California, Irvine. His paper "Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action" (1965) is one of the most discussed on theological fatalism: if God knew in advance what I will do, I seem unable to do otherwise. He also wrote on God's eternity and on mysticism.
Main works
God's foreknowledge seems incompatible with the freedom to do otherwise.
On the idea of a God outside time.
A study of accounts of mystical union.
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceHe worked from within the Christian tradition, analysing divine attributes such as eternity and knowledge as a theist.
Pike, God and Timelessness (1970)
He argued that infallible divine foreknowledge is incompatible with a free act, though this does not by itself show he held libertarian freedom.
Pike, "Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action", Philosophical Review (1965)