Theological Theses · §1927 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Robert Baron of Aberdeen holds the same view as Fonseca and Suarez

This at any rate is beyond all doubt the view of the Scot Robert Baron, professor of theology at the University of Aberdeen during his lifetime, as can be seen in his Metaphysics adapted to the use of theology.

On God's concurrence, and so on its agreement with the freedom of our choice, he declares that he holds exactly the same as Fonseca and Suárez. The concurrence is indifferent in itself and is determined by the secondary cause to a particular kind of action. God has no need to premove secondary causes; it is enough that he acts together with them on their effects and actions. God's concurrence and influence is thus in reality nothing other than the secondary cause's action itself, insofar as that action receives its being from the first cause together with the second and depends on it (Section 8, Disputation 3, 'On the concurrence or cooperation of God').

Latin

XXXV. Haec saltem est procul omni dubio sententia Roberti Baronii Scoti, dum viveret in Academia Abredonensi Theologiae Professoris, ut videre est in ejus Metaphysica ad Theologiae usum accommodata; ubi de Dei concursu, adeoque de ejus cum arbitrii nostri libertate concordia, idem omnino se sentire profitetur cum Fonseca & Suarezio, nempe concursum illum ex se indifferentem esse, & a causa secunda ad certam actionis speciem determinari: neque opus esse ut Deus causas secundas praemoveat, sed sufficere ut simul cum iis in earum effectus & actiones influat: adeoque Dei concursum & influxum revera non aliud esse quam ipsam causae secundae actionem, in quantum a prima causa, simul cum secunda, esse suum accipit, & ab ea dependet. Sectione octava, Disp. 3. De concursu seu cooperatione Dei.

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