Abstract

Contemporary philosophers, especially philosophers of religion, are learning that they can ignore the work of medieval philosophers and theologians only at the risk of having to reinvent the wheel or proceed on foot when better transportation is available. But the inaccessibility of medieval thought to modern readers is a substantial impediment to anyone who wants to bring its resources to bear on modern discussions: the vast majority of texts remains untranslated and their dense and highly technical contents often remain impenetrable without careful analysis and exposition. The project Freddoso has undertaken in this book, an annotated translation of Molina's text together with a lengthy philosophical introduction to and analysis of Molina's views on God's foreknowledge, is just the sort that is needed to overcome this impediment. Freddoso gives us both the first English translation of some important sixteenth-century material and the philosophical tools needed to begin working at it ourselves.