Divine Providence: The Molinist Account (Revised)

by Thomas P. Flint

Book Overview

Thomas P. Flint develops and defends the idea of divine providence sketched by Luis de Molina, the sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian. The Molinist account of divine providence reconciles two claims long thought to be incompatible: that God is the all-knowing governor of the universe and that individual freedom can prevail only in a universe free of absolute determinism. The Molinist concept of middle knowledge holds that God knows, though he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801434505
• ISBN13: 9780801434501
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher