scientia media

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 498 words | Copyright

scientia media (Lat., ‘mediate knowledge’). A term coined by L. Molina in his attempt to reconcile God's foreknowledge with human free will. It designates the knowledge which God has of ‘futuribilia’, i.e. of things which are not, but which would be if certain conditions were realized, and thus are intermediate between mere possibilities and actual future events. According to Molinist teaching, this mediate knowledge is independent of the decree of the Divine Will.

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