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The author investigates the problem whether it is possible to adopt two tenets at the same time: one saying that God possesses prior knowledge of future contingent events, especially human acts, and another one saying that humans can act freely. These problems are discussed in a historical perspective. He analyses the paradigmatic conception of Saint Augustine presented in the 'De libero arbitrio'...