Back from the Future: Divine Supercomprehension and Middle Knowledge as Ground for Retroactive Ontology

In this article, I attempt to solve a problem in Wolfhart Pannenberg's eschatology, which is best understood as a retroactive ontology. Pannenberg argues that the future exerts a retroactive causal and determinative power over the present, though he also claims that said future does not yet con...

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Main Author: Hollingsworth, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2019]
In: Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Year: 2019, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 516-532
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pannenberg, Wolfhart 1928-2014 / Future / Retroactivity / Present / Molina, Luis de 1535-1600 / God / Prescience
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDD Protestant Church
NBC Doctrine of God
NBQ Eschatology
Further subjects:B Molinism
B Systematic theology
B Ontology
B Systematic Theology
B Wolfhart Pannenberg
B Supercomprehension
B Luis de Molina
B mittleres Wissen
B super-comprehensio
B Eschatology
B Middle Knowledge
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Summary:In this article, I attempt to solve a problem in Wolfhart Pannenberg's eschatology, which is best understood as a retroactive ontology. Pannenberg argues that the future exerts a retroactive causal and determinative power over the present, though he also claims that said future does not yet concretely exist. The problem can be posed thus: How does a non-concrete future hold retroactive power over the concrete present? I argue that the doctrines of middle knowledge and supercomprehension formulated by the Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina, provide an adequate solution to this problem while still preserving both the retroactive power of the nonconcrete future as well as genuine human libertarian free choice.
ISSN:1612-9520
Contains:Enthalten in: Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/nzsth-2019-0026