Last Friday, January 16, the first session of the "Cluster Group on Analytic Theology: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Divine Providence" took place at the seminar of the department de Philosophy the first session of the "Cluster Group on Analytic Theology: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Divine Providence", project co-organized by department and the School Ecclesiastical Philosophy of the University of Navarra. The group brings together philosophers and theologians to study and discuss the main approaches to the topic of providence from the novel perspective of analytic theology.

The "Analytical Theology" is a program of research emerged in Anglo-Saxon academia in the last 40 years, which uses the tools and methodology of the analytical Philosophy to address the main challenges presented by the rational speech on God. The Cluster Group is the first systematic initiative that seeks to introduce the discussion on this new current in the Spanish academic environment, through seminars and open conferences with invited professors of national and international scope.

The first session dealt with the topic compatibility between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. The presentation was position of the professors of department of Philosophy Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe and Pablo Cobreros. Completing the group were professors Cruz González Ayesta (also from department of Philosophy), Enrique Moros and Martín Montoya (School Ecclesiastic of Philosophy), Miguel Brugarolas (School of Theology), Enrique Romerales(Autonomous University of Madrid) and Eduardo Ortiz(Catholic University of Valencia).

The Cluster Group is funded, through a competitive solicitation, by the project Analytic Theology of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, project funded in turn by the John Templeton Foundation.

The activities of the group are coordinated by professors Agustín Echavarría (department of Philosophy of the School of Philosophy and Letters) and Rubén Pereda (School Ecclesiastic of Philosophy). For more information, please visit the projectwebsite.