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On divine foreknowledge : part IV of the Concordia

Luis de Molina was a leading figure in the remarkable sixteenth-century revival of Scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula. Molina is best known for his innovative theory of middle knowledge. Alfred J. Freddoso's extensive introductory essay clears up...
Print Book, English, ©1988
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, ©1988
Early works
xii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
9780801421310, 9780801489358, 0801421314, 0801489350
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Foreknowledge and providence
Contingency and freedom
Alternatives to Molinism
The theory of middle knowledge
Objections and replies
Disputation 47 : on the source of contingency
Disputation 48 : whether all the things that exist, have existed, and will exist in time are present to God from eternity with their own proper existence
Disputation 49 : whether future contingents are known by God with certainty because they are present to Him with their own existence, and whether the contingency of these things might thereby be reconciled with divine foreknowledge
Disputation 50 : whether it is through the ideas that God knows future contingents with certainty, and at the same time the views of Scotus and Durandus are examined
Disputation 51 : whether freedom of choice and the contingency of things are correctly reconciled with divine foreknowledge by the thesis that whatever is going to occur because of innate freedom of choice is such that God will bring it about that from eternity He knew none other than that thing
Disputation 52 : whether in God there is knowledge of future contingents. Also, the way in which freedom of choice and the contingency of things accord with this knowledge
Disputation 53 : On predeterminations, and where the certitude of God's knowledge of future contingents comes from. The positions of others on both the topics mentioned in the title ; The foregoing position is attacked ; The extent to which predeterminations should be countenanced ; Some objections are answered
Translation of: Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis. Part 4
Includes indexes
Translation of: Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis. Part 4