Since my post on Molinism/Middle Knowledge garnered some interest I figured it would be helpful to provide some more resources on the subject for anyone who is interested in exploring, as William Lane Craig puts it, such a fruitful doctrine further:
Audio
William Lane Craig‘s multi-part series “Doctrine of God” taught in his Sunday School class (Defenders) at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church
Articles
- Refutation of Boyd’s Neo-Molinism, William Lane Craig
- Molinism and Romans 9, William Lane Craig
- On the grounding objection, William Lane Craig
- Subject: Misconceptions about Middle Knowledge, William Lane Craig
- Does God Choose Who Will Believe?, Jeff Robinson
Philosophia Christi is a scholarly periodical published by the Evangelical Philosophical Society which regularly has articles both for and against Middle Knowledge, recently Vol 11 Num 1 2009 featured Steven B. Cowan (Editor of Five Views on Apologetics) against and Scott A Davison (Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University) for with some good interaction between them both.
Books
- Only Wise God, William Lane Craig
- Reasonable Faith, William Lane Craig
- Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views, William Lane Craig
- Divine Providence: The Molinist Account, Thomas P Flint
- Middle Knowledge, Eef Dekker
- Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach, Kenneth Keathley
- God’s Greater Glory, Bruce Ware
- The Transforming Power of Grace, Thomas C Odem
Other notable proponents of Middle Knowledge1 include:
- Bruce Little who is a philosophy professor at SEBTS who has done a lot of work on the topic of God, Evil, and Suffering and whom is also the author of Creation Order Theodicy
- Udo Middleman who is a Calvinist and director of L’Abri which was started by his father-in-law, Francis Schaeffer. He is also the author of the excellent books Innocence of God and The Islamization of Christianity
- Alvin Plantinga who is a Calvinist and Presbyterian professor of philosophy (specifically epistemology) at Notre Dame
- Thomas P Flint who is a Roman Catholic professor of philosophy at Notre Dame
- Ken Keathley who is a senior associate dean and professor of theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. and a 4 point Calvinist.
I would be remiss if I were to claim this as an exhaustive list of proponents or resources pertaining to Middle Knowledge/Molinism so if you know of any other resources, by all means, let me know!
- These include both active and passive proponents of Middle Knowledge/Molinism. Not all of these people actively promote Middle Knowledge by itself but all, as far as I know, hold to this doctrine and deem it useful or “fruitful” in answering other theological/philosophical issues. The most significant being the question of evil. [↩]
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2 Responses to “Resources for more information on Molinism/Middle Knowledge”
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Bruce Ware holds to compatiblist middle knowledge, he is not a Molinist. He objects to libertarian freedom as he states on page 113 of the book you reference above, "..advocacy of libertarian freedom renders such divine knowledge impossible.
I'm not sure Keathley can deemed a four point Calvinist either. In the link you provide to his upcoming book it states, "..the author argues that just three of Calvinism’s five TULIP points can be defended scripturally.."
It's hard to tell whether or not Udo Middlemann is a Calvinist. Based on one of the amazon reviews Middlemann is said to attack a characture of Calvinism.
I'm not so sure Plantinga is a Calvinist either. Jeremy Pierce writes about meeting Plantinga and how he was put off by Pierce's denial of libertarian free will. In the comments Pierce says,"[Plantinga] doesn't hold to any of [TULIP] except perhaps a watered down version of T and perhaps also P. I know he denies U, L, and I." In his spiritual autobiography posted at Calvin College Plantinga seems to take issue with the specificity of the Canons of Dort.
[...] any rate, here is a link to the best resources I’ve found on the subject of Molinism/Middle [...]