Luis de Molina
Subtitle: the life and theology of the founder of middle knowledge
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780310516972
Description: 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. In the first full-length work ever published on this seminal thinker, author Kirk R. MacGregor's Luis de Molina explores the development and original contributions -- above all the doctrine of God's "middle knowledge" -- of the brilliant philosophical theologian. - Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A theological reformer for the universal church; title: Early years and religious conversion; title: Philosophical and theological pilgrimage; title: Molina's conception of middle knowledge; title: Molina's doctrine of providence; title: Molina's doctrine of predestination; title: Popularity and escape from the Spanish Inquisition; title: Molina's practical theology; title: Molina's theology of social justice; title: The Congregatio De Auxiliis Gratiae; title: Molina's legacy