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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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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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On God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals of Freedom [PDF]
To answer the problem of incompatibility between divine providence and creaturely freedom, Molinism suggests the theory of middle knowledge, a theory that claims by assuming God’s knowledge of counterfactuals of freedom, we can resolve the problem ...
Farid al-Din Sebt +3 more
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A Molinist Response to Schellenberg’s Hiddenness Argument
John Schellenberg argues that divine hiddenness is evidence against God’s existence. More precisely, according to Schellenberg’s well-known Hiddenness Argument, God’s existence entails that there would never be any nonresistant non-believers; however ...
Erasmus Jacobus, Stratton Timothy A.
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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence
The results from contemporary science, especially the theory of evolution and quantum physics, seem to favor process theology. Moreover, the evil committed by free will leads some theologians to reduce divine action in order to prevent God from being ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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Tanrı’nın Ön Bilgisi Meselesinde Orta Bilgi Teorisinin Yeri ve İncelenmesi
Tanrı’nın ön bilgiye sahip olmasıyla, insanın özgür olup olmadığı meselesi hem felsefe de hem de dini düşüncede tartışılan önemli bir konudur. Biz burada orta bilgi teorisinin çözüm önerisini ele alıp incelemeye çalıştık. Tanrı’nın önbilgiye sahip olması,
İbrahim Halil Dündar
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William Lane Craig on Theological Fatalism [PDF]
Craig believes that theological fatalistic argument, which aims at mocking human freedom, faces two major problems. On the one hand, in the argument, there is a confusion of necessitas consequentis and necessitas consequentiae in the concept of “within ...
Abdolrasoul Kashfi, Matin Tayefe Rostami
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Part of the traditional Christian doctrine of sin is the claim that, due to the effects of original sin, acts of sin are inevitable. Of course, our reflection on sinful actions is shaped by how we think about human freedom and divine providence more ...
Kevin Timpe
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Immanuel Kant’s idea of radical evil as a systematic and terminological problem
The paper investigates the systematic connection between Kantian concept of radical evil and radical indeterministic idea of freedom. According to the presented thesis the systematically relevant interpretation of the radical evil concept requires ...
Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig
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Classical theism and God’s relation to sin [PDF]
The article deals with the problem of God's relation to sin in classical theism. It is shown that from the perspective of classical theism the problem of God's relation to sin lies in the diffi culty of reconciling the divine attribute of simplicity with
Igor Gasparov
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