Theological Theses · §2438 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Not whether inherent grace exists, but how to read those texts; locus closed

Thesis XLIX. So the question is not simply whether there is a saving grace that inheres in us, either as an act or as a habit. It is only whether the passages of scripture that ascribe our salvation and justification to God's grace are to be understood of such grace.

The doctors of the Roman Church say yes and the Reformed say no. How much this question matters we have considered more fully elsewhere.

Latin

XLIX. Ac proinde non quaeritur simpliciter, An Detur aliqua gratia salvifica nobis inhaerens per modum sive actus, sive habitus: sed istud tantum An de ejusmodi gratia intelligenda sint ea scripturae loca ubi salus nostra & justificatio gratiae Dei tribuitur, quod affirmant Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, Reformati vero negant. Quae quaestio quanti sit momenti, alibi fusius a nobis expensum est.

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