This course will explore what it means to say that God is free, and what human freedom means in relation to God’s will. It will do this through a study of principal texts representing the classical understanding as it was taken up and transformed within Christian revelation, and eventually overturned in the late medieval/early modern period. This exploration will take its bearings above all from a metaphysical understanding of the good. Some of the authors that will be considered are Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, Aquinas, and Scotus.