When Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and the Pope had launched a co…
Spanish theologian Luis de Molina is enjoying a quiet resurgence among Protestant scholars -- a belated appreciation, perhaps, for the Reformation-era Jesuit who in his lifetime never launched a theological movement comparable to those of his contemporaries Calvin and Arminius. …
Molinism: the contemporary debate
Since his rediscovery by Alwin Plantinga in the 1970s Molinism concerning the possibility of counterfactuals of freedom is one of the main issues of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. Albeit that fact, Luis de Molina (1535-1600) still remains one of most influential a…
Since his rediscovery by Alwin Plantinga in the 1970s, the possibility of counterfactuals of freedom in Molinism has become one of the main issues in the contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. Notwithstanding this, Luis de Molina (1535-1600) remains one of the most influe…
Since his rediscovery by Alwin Plantinga in the 1970s Molinism concerning the possibility of counterfactuals of freedom is one of the main issues of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. Albeit that fact, Luis de Molina (1535-1600) still remains one of most influential a…
Focused on Molina's main works the book offers the first comprehensive synopsis of his partly revolutionary philosophical positions concerning metaphysics of freedom, political philosophy, theory of law and their historical and systematic influence from the 17th century until to…