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Molina's View of Middle Knowledge
Sometimes Calvinists are accused of “straw manning” Molinist positions regarding God’s knowledge of conditional future contingents. I recognize that there are many different Molinists, and that they may have many different views. The following, however, are Molina’s views, as summarized in the introduction to Part IV of Concordia, “On Divine Foreknowledge,” by Prof. Alfred J.…
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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…