Molinist

On Molinist principles, it is difficult to see how Oswald's not pulling the trigger in those circumstances could have become actual.

Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008

I doubt not that as soon as a Jansenist shall have written a book to demonstrate that one and two are three, a Molinist will start up and demonstrate that two and one are five.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Jansenist or Molinist; we, on the contrary, occupy the Being of

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The parliament was willing to resist a Molinist archbishop and his satellites, when they refused burial to all who should die without having received a certificate of conformity to the famous bull Unigenitus, which proscribed

Voltaire 2007

Among the great and little vulgar may be found pious herb-women, Molinist duchesses, scrupulous seamstresses who would go to the stake for anabaptism, devout hackney-coachmen, most determined in the cause of Luther or of

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In light of this, we can only conclude that the Molinist effort to reconcile creaturely freedom with God's omniscience and sovereignty as creator fails.

Divine Providence McCann, Hugh J. 2006

The Molinist needs to find a fourth option that shows us that there is actually work for middle knowledge to do.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

But, unless the grounding objection is answered, there are direct reasons for taking a non-Molinist position e.g., the ones given above.

Against Molinism: The Shorter Argument 2005

The failure to recognize this as a possibility undergirds many Molinist arguments.2

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

That is, the strongest we can say in favor of the Molinist position is that we have reasons to think that if it is true, it solves problems; the strongest we can say in favor of the anti-Molinist position is that we have reasons to think that it is true. posted by Brandon | 9:15 PM

Against Molinism: The Shorter Argument 2005