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Arguing from Molinism to Neo-Molinism [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophia 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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Flint's 'Molinism and the Incarnation' is Too Radical [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T. Ryan
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A Thomistic Account of Human Free Will and Divine Providence: Pedro de Ledesma and the De Auxiliis Controversy

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Pedro de Ledesma is one of the Dominican theologians of the School of Salamanca involved in the De Auxiliis controversy, i.e., the disputes around a famous book by Luis de Molina on the relation between divine foreknowledge and providence and our free ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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God and the Playpen: On the Feasibility of Morally Better Worlds

open access: yesReligions, 2021
According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with free creatures, and hence a world with moral goodness, without allowing for the possibility of evil.
Cheryl K. Chen
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Molinist Gunslingers Redux: A Friendly Response to Greg Welty

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
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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Divine Foreknowledge and Providence

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2020
In this paper, we aim to examine the relationships between four solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom—theological determinism, Molinism, simple foreknowledge and open theism—and divine providence and theodicy.
Aldro Frigerio, Ciro De Florio
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Molinism, Creature-types, and the Nature of Counterfactual Implication [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Super Mario Strikes Back: Another Molinist Reply to Welty’s Gunslingers Argument

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
Molinists generally see Calvinism as possessing certain liabilities from which Molinism is immune. For example, Molinists have traditionally rejected Calvinism, in part, because it allegedly makes God the author of sin.
McNabb Tyler Dalton
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Complete Concept Molinism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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