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• Winner of Catholic Media Association Book Award: Faithful Citizenship/Religious Freedom, Third Place 2023 (United States)

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Retrieving Freedom is an impressive volume that locates the nature of free will in the very depth of both history and metaphysics. This is a much-needed contribution that will situate the questions of free will in the only horizon that can make them intelligible: a horizon in which we can get into view the very meaning and purpose of our freedom. -Anselm Ramelow, OP, editor of God: Reason and Reality

Retrieving Freedom is an impressive volume that locates the nature of free will in the very depth of both history and metaphysics. This is a much-needed contribution that will situate the questions of free will in the only horizon that can make them intelligible: a horizon in which we can get into view the very meaning and purpose of our freedom. -Anselm Ramelow, OP, editor of God: Reason and Reality Lucid, capacious, and forceful as all of Schindler's work, Retrieving Freedom reexamines the problem of human freedom within a philosophical and theological tradition spanning from Plotinus to Duns Scotus. The book's provocative decision to retrace the question of freedom within Christianity's inherently normative and metaphysical framework helpfully counteracts modernity's habit of conceiving freedom through its ostensible contrary: determinism. Instead, Schindler's brilliantly executed, contrastive approach allows us to see that the true source and origin of human freedom is found in the Christianity's Triune God as revealed in the twin orders of nature and history. -Thomas Pfau, author of Incomprehensible Certainty

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D. C. Schindler is professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the John Paul II Institute, Washington, DC. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty.

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