Molinism: The Contemporary Debate

Molinism, named after the sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit Luis de Molina, re-emerged in the 1970s after it was unwittingly assumed in versions of Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense against the Logical Argument from Evil. The Molinist notion of middle knowledge--and especially its main objects, so-called counterfactuals of (creaturely) freedom--have been the subject of vigorous debate in analytical philosophy of religion ever since. Is middle knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199590621
• ISBN13: 9780199590629
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"