Abstract
In the eleventh chapter of Matthew's Gospel, Jesus says to the inhabitants of Bethsaida and Corozain: If the miracles worked in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes (v. 21). Passages like this support a scriptural argument for God's knowledge of counterfactuals about created individuals. In the sixteenth century, Jesuits and Dominicans vigorously debated about how to explain this knowledge. The Jesuits, notably Luis de Molina and Francisco Suarez, argued that the basis for this knowledge lies primarily in the divine intellect: counterfactuals about free creatures are primitive truths known to God by virtue of the immensity of his intellectual power. Their Dominican opponents, notably Domingo Bafiez and Diego Alvarez, held that this knowledge is simply God's knowledge of his own decrees, by which he determines the truth value of all contingent propositions, including counterfactuals.1
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
