Theological Theses · §1881 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The only real controversy left to the Reformed is with the Molinists

So no dispute of substance or of any weight is left for the Reformed except with those in the Roman School called Molinists, after the famous Jesuit Luis de Molina, who wrote and taught about a century ago.

They understand the indifference to acting and not acting in which freedom of choice consists, and the familiar definition that calls it 'that by which, given everything required beforehand for acting, the will can act and not act, do this or that', very differently from the more recent Thomists, as we showed in the preceding disputation.

Latin

XXXII. Nulla ergo Reformatis controversia superest, quae realis sit & alicujus momenti, nisi cum iis qui in Schola Romana Molinistae dicuntur, denominatione sumpta a Ludovico Molina Jesuita celeberrimo, qui ante annos centum circiter scripsit & docuit. Quippe indifferentiam ad agendum & non agendum, in qua libertas arbitrii consistit, & vulgatam definitionem per quam dicitur esse id quo, positis omnibus ad agendum praerequisitis, potest voluntas agere & non agere, hoc aut illud agere, longe aliter intelligunt quam Thomistae recentiores, ut praecedenti disputatione manifestum fecimus.

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