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Molinism vs. Báñezianism: A Debate

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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Moanism's Middle Knowledge

The key insight I think of Moanism is that it's leveraging the distinction between knowing infallibly and causing with necessity right. So this falls somewhere in between them involving the free will of creatures but as you say this middle knowledge is knowledge that God has of what creatures would do in any particular circumstances, prior to his own exercise of his own free will. Yes. It really is it's an ingenious logical development in one sense because it does allow for greater subtlety in the in the discussion about predestination  and it does try to preserve like Banyas and Molina both do God's sovereignty Because God is still free in creating this particular world with these particular circumstances so that goes

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