Theological Theses · §1896 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Roman School commonly rejects this: God gives being to every act of the creature immediately

The Roman School, however, generally rejects this view. With very few exceptions, the teachers of the Roman Church, old and recent alike, agree that God cooperates with secondary causes in such a way that every action of a secondary cause comes proximately from God as well as from that cause.

No action can be performed by a creature unless God, together with the creature, gives that action its being, and does so of himself and directly.

Latin

IV. Verum ista opinio communiter in Schola Romana rejicitur. Paucissimis enim exceptis, consentiunt Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae tum Veteres tum recentiores, Deum ita cooperari causis secundis ut nulla sit actio causae secundae quae proxime non procedat a Deo sicut & a causa secunda, & nullam actionem posse a creatura exerceri, nisi Deus cum creatura conferat Esse illi actioni, & quidem per se & immediate.

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