Theological Theses · §2336 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Habitual grace once doubtful: Vienne and Trent

Thesis XVII. Commonly accepted as this division is, someone has nevertheless rejected it. No theologian of the Roman Church has ever doubted that there is some actual grace of God in man. Habitual grace is another matter.

The scholastic doctors admit that in the Roman Church the point was not formerly so settled. It seems to have been defined only at the Council of Vienne under Clement V and at the Council of Trent in the last century; before that it was somewhat doubtful and open to dispute whether any habitual grace is given.

Latin

XVII. Verum haec divisio, quanquam communiter recepta, a non nemine tamen improbata est. Nam quod sit aliqua Dei Actualis in homine gratia, a nullo quidem inter Theologos Ecclesiae Romanae unquam dubitatum fuit. At vero secus est de gratia habituali. Agnoscunt enim Doctores Scholastici, in Ecclesia Romana rem non fuisse antehac ita certam, & videri solum definitam esse in Concilio Viennensi sub Clemente V. & in Synodo Tridentina superiori saeculo: prius vero fuisse aliquatenus dubium atq; problematicum, An daretur aliqua gratia habitualis.

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