Theological Theses · §2581 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Between the Thomists and the later theologians

Thesis CXLIV. Clearly, then, this doctor denies that sufficient and efficacious grace are the same real entity. Efficacious grace, for him, adds to sufficient grace a new aid that comes before the person's conversion; here he sides with the recent Thomists and parts from Molina and the authors of congruous grace.

Yet at the same time he denies that the efficacy of divine grace is absolute, making it depend instead on the use of our free choice; here he leaves the Thomists and sides with those later theologians.

Latin

CXLIV. Unde patet hunc Doctorem nolle eandem esse entitatem realem gratiae sufficientis, & gratiae efficacis; sed gratiam efficacem novum auxilium ad sufficientem addere, quod conversionem hominis praeveniat: qua in re ad Thomistas recentiores accedit, & dissentit a Molina, & authoribus gratiae congruae: Et simul tamen eum nolle efficaciam gratiae divinae esse absolutam, sed pendere ab usu liberi nostri arbitrii, qua in re deserit Thomistas, & ad Theologos istos posteriores accedit.

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