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Molinism vs. Báñezianism: A Debate

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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The Mullenist's Conundrum of Foreknowledge

There's a tremendous amount of agreement between the two sides in this debate. Everybody agrees that God knows everything, not only possible things but actual things. The Mullenist tried to solve that problem by basically postulating in God what they call middle knowledge. And so how does God know you know what I'm going to eat for breakfast tomorrow morning? He knows that because from eternity he is known me as an individual before I existed and part of knowing me fully as an individual includes knowing what I would do in any perfectly specified situation where that I could find myself in.

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