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TheoLogica, 2023 Molinism, which says that God has middle knowledge, offers one of the most impressive and popular ways of combining libertarian creaturely freedom with full providential control by God.
Michael Bergmann
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Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 Several philosophers and theologians (including Stump, Cross, Timpe, Keathley, and Evans) have attempted to formulate monergistic, soft libertarian accounts of salvation.
MacGregor Kirk R.
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If Molinism is true, what can you do? [PDF]
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2023 Suppose Molinism is true and God placed Adam in the garden because God knew Adam would freely eat of the fruit. Suppose further that, had it not been true that Adam would freely eat of the fruit, were he placed in the garden, God would have placed ...
Andrew Law
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Arguing from Molinism to Neo-Molinism [PDF]
Philosophia Christi, 2015 In a pair of recent essays, William Lane Craig has argued that certain open theist understandings of the nature of the future are both semantically and modally confused.
Hess, Elijah
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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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Mere Molinism: A Defense of Two Essential Pillars
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 Molinism is founded on two ‘pillars’, namely, the view that human beings possess libertarian free will and the view that God has middle knowledge. Both these pillars stand in contrast to naturalistic determinism and divine determinism.
Stratton Tim, Erasmus Jacobus
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Flint's 'Molinism and the Incarnation' is Too Radical [PDF]
, 2015 In a series of papers, Thomas P. Flint has posited that God the Son could become incarnate in any human person as long as certain conditions are met (Flint 2001a, 2001b). In a recent paper, he has argued that all saved human
Mullins, R. T.
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, 2017 What is the driving force behind salvation? Is it God’s sovereign will, enacting His efficacious grace upon the heart of man? Or is it the free will of man himself, choosing to accept the grace that has been extended to him?
Steele, Olivia Grey
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Complete Concept Molinism [PDF]
, 2013 A theoretically rigorous approach to the key problems of Molinism leads to a clear distinction between semantic and metaphysical problems. Answers to semantic problems do not provide answers to metaphysical problems that arise from the theory of middle ...
Brüntrup, Godehard, Schneider, Ruben
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Molinism, Creature-types, and the Nature of Counterfactual Implication [PDF]
, 2012 Granting that there could be true subjunctive conditionals of libertarian freedom (SCLs), I argue (roughly) that there could be such conditionals only in connection with individual "possible creatures" (in contrast to types).
Murphy, Daniel
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