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Divine Temporality and Providential Bodgery

TheoLogica, 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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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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God’s Extended Mind [PDF]

, 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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What Are the Odds that Everyone is Depraved? [PDF]

, 2020
Why does God allow evil? One hypothesis is that God desires the existence and activity of free creatures but He was unable to create a world with such creatures and such activity without also allowing evil. If Molinism is true, what probability should be
Hill, Scott
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Still Another Anti-Molinist Argument

TheoLogica
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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Mere Molinism: A Defense of Two Essential Pillars

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
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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Counterfactuals of Freedom and the Luck Objection to Libertarianism [PDF]

, 2017
Peter van Inwagen famously offers a version of the luck objection to libertarianism called the ‘Rollback Argument.’ It involves a thought experiment in which God repeatedly rolls time backward to provide an agent with many opportunities to act in the ...
Hartman, Robert J.
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Ockhamism Without Molinism

, 2021
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
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Agustinismo y molinismo Del uso que los Salmanticenses (1631) hicieron de las enseñanzas de San Agustín contra las tesis de Luis de Molina

Criticón, 2013
The post-tridentine dispute opposing Thomists against Molinists showed the ambivalence of Augustinian doctrinal meaning. Due to Gabriel Vázquez, Molinism turned up to question publicly the notion of a gratuitous predestination to heaven.
Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi
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Accepting Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2019
I argue that certain kinds of luck can partially determine an agent’s praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. To make this view clearer, consider some examples.
Hartman, Robert J.
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