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Classical theism and God’s relation to sin [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2020
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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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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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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Providence, Chance, Divine Causation, and Molinism: A Reply to Łukasiewicz

open access: yes, 2020
Opatrzność, przypadek, boska przyczynowość i molinizm: odpowiedź Łukasiewiczowi Esej Dariusza Łukasiewicz Opatrzność Boga a przypadek w świecie ma dowodzić, że silne tradycyjne rozumienie opatrzności nie da się utrzymać, zwłaszcza w świetle ...
T. P. Flint
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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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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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Divine Temporality and Providential Bodgery

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2020
In contemporary debates, one is presented with temporal and timeless conceptions of divine eternality. Each conception is said to have various consequences for understanding divine perfection and providence.
Ryan T. Mullins
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God’s Extended Mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The traditional doctrine of divine omniscience ascribes to God the fully exercised power to know all truths. but why is God’s excellence with respect to knowing not treated on a par with his excellence with respect to doing, where the latter requires ...
Hunt, David P.
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