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Calvinism vs. Reformed Molinism Debate
The debate has been posted at the Seeing God Ministries website (link to page)(direct link to mp3). The debate pitted Reformed Molinists Richard Bushey and Zachary Lawson against myself and Josh Sommer. To God be the Glory!
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Molinism – Responses to a Some Attempted Defenses
Someone posting under the name Richard Bushey has a post attempting to defend Molinism against some of the criticisms offered by my friend, Dr. James White (link). I’d like to rebut a few points. Is Molinism too heavily reliant on philosophy? Mr. Bushey argues that philosophy is inherent to every kind of theology. However, that…
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Craig’s Dilemma – Escape for Aseity, but Hello Grounding Objection
William Lane Craig says he doesn’t think aseity is threatened by middle knowledge, because he is an anti-realist with respect to abstract objects including possible worlds. In other words, he views possible worlds as non-existent. Thus, God’s middle knowledge is not dependent on something outside himself. While that’s an understandable response, it runs smack into…
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Don’t Conflate Middle Knowledge and Knowledge of Contingents of Creaturely Freedom
Alfred J. Freddoso in his lengthy introduction to his translation of Molina’s “On Divine Knowledge,” provides some advice that would be well taken by his fellow Molinists (p. 23): Molina claims that infinitely many conditional future contingents obtained from eternity and that from eternity God had comprehensive knowledge of them. However — and this is…
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William Lane Craig – If God’s Just a Player, Who is the House?
William Lane Craig wrote: God doesn’t create such a choice for Himself. The counterfactuals of creaturely freedom which confront Him are outside His control. He has to play with the hand He has been dealt. (source) One of the objections to Molinism is precisely that it reduces God to playing the cards he has been…
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Molinism – Some Responses
I appreciate that some Molinists / fans of William Lane Craig listened to the Back Pack Radio episode on Molinism and provided some comments. I’d like to respond to some of the comments. The first commenter provided the following points: Molinism was not a response to Jansenism; it came before Jansenism. This is true, in…
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Molinism on Back Pack Radio
Vocab Malone graciously invited me to discuss Molinism with him and his co-hosts on Back Pack Radio (here is the mp3 of the show). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!