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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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Według Okhamizmu pewne (lecz nie wszystkie) zdania o przygodnej przyszłości są prawdziwe. Okazuje się, że pewna naturalna reprezentacja Okhamizmu w ramach modelu branching-time jest wadliwa, gdyż nie pozwala interpretować zdań w czasie przyszłym w nie-aktualnych okolicznościach. Aby przezwyciężyć ten defekt, część teoretyków zwróciła się ku Molinizmowi
Jacek Wawer, Wawer, Jacek
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Still Another Anti-Molinist Argument [PDF]
Molinists offer a tempting bargain: accept divine middle knowledge, and reap solutions to a number of philosophical/theological problems. The prime benefit we are meant to reap from middle knowledge is a solution to the problem of freedom and providence.
Daniel Rubio
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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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Molinist Gunslingers Redux: A Friendly Response to Greg Welty
Philosopher Greg Welty contributed a chapter entitled ‘Molinist Gunslingers: God and the Authorship of Sin’, to a book devoted to answering the charge that Calvinism makes God the author of sin (Calvinism and the Problem of Evil).
Keathley Kenneth D.
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Mere Molinism: A Defense of Two Essential Pillars
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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Arguing from Molinism to Neo-Molinism [PDF]
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 in Renaissance Philosophy
Molinism is a theological and philosophical theory developed during the late sixteenth century by Luis de Molina. In particular, Molinism tries to explain the relation between God’s foreknowledge and human free will, thanks to the elaboration of the so ...
Gerace A, Antonio Gerace
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Some Molinists claim that a perfectly good God would actualize a world that is salvifically optimal, that is, a world in which the balance between the saved and damned is optimal and cannot be improved upon without undesirable consequences. I argue that given some plausible principles of rationality, alongside the assumptions Molinists already accept ...
Rusavuk, Andre Leo
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