{"id":68,"date":"2007-09-20T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2007-09-20T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T19:08:00","slug":"a-critique-of-craig-on-middle-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/a-critique-of-craig-on-middle-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critique of Craig on Middle Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/turretinfan.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/william-lane-craigs-middle-knowledge.html\">a link<\/a> to a recent critique of William Lane Craig&#8217;s defense of Molinism, a theory of divine providence that claims to reconcile unconditional (i.e., libertarian) human freedom with meticulous providence (the notion that God has sovereignly decreed everything that happens) by attributing to God &#8220;middle knowledge&#8221;. Middle knowledge is said to be infallible, comprehensive knowledge of what any <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">possible <\/span>creature placed in any <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">possible<\/span> free choice situation <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">would<\/span> do, and this knowledge is supposed to be had by God <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">prior to<\/span> his creative decree.<\/p>\n<p>This critique is pretty good, in my opinion, though there are a few technical points I could pick on. But time is precious so I&#8217;ll simply note that the critique comes from  a broadly Calvinist perspective and that the author unwarrantedly  (IMHO) dismisses open theism (my position) as &#8220;obviously mistaken&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a recent critique of William Lane Craig&#8217;s defense of Molinism, a theory of divine providence that claims to reconcile unconditional (i.e., libertarian) human freedom with meticulous providence (the notion that God has sovereignly decreed everything that happens) by attributing to God &#8220;middle knowledge&#8221;. Middle knowledge is said to be infallible, comprehensive\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/a-critique-of-craig-on-middle-knowledge\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}