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, 2018 Molinism, named after Luis de Molina, is a theological system for reconciling human freedom with God’s grace and providence. Presupposing a strongly libertarian account of freedom, Molinists assert against their rivals that the grace whereby God cooperates with supernaturally salvific acts is not intrinsically efficacious. To preserve divine providence
Alfred J. Freddoso
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The Kabod: The Journal of the Liberty University Honors College, 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? This is the age-old question behind the argument of sovereignty versus free will.
Steele, Olivia Grey
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Molinism's kryptonite:Counterfactuals and circumstantial luck [PDF]
Philosophical QuarterlyAccording to Molinism, logically prior to his creative decree, God knows via middle knowledge the truth value of the counterfactuals or conditionals of creaturely freedom (CFs) and thus what any possible person would do in any given circumstance. Critics
Rusavuk, Andre leo
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European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022 In this paper we consider the possibility of a Quantum Molinism: such a view applies an analogue of the Molinistic account of free will‘s compatibility with God’s foreknowledge to God’s knowledge of (supposedly) indeterministic events at a quantum level.
Thomas Harvey +3 more
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On God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals of Freedom [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021 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
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023 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
Religions, 2021 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
Tetkik, 2022 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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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 ...
Schneider, Ruben +3 more
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William Lane Craig on Theological Fatalism [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016 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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