Theological Theses · §2221 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Scotus and Biel follow Durandus; the view now rejected as Pelagian

Scotus and Gabriel Biel took the same view as Durandus. With him they hold that man, even corrupted by sin, can by his own strength and without grace keep all the moral precepts, the precepts of the law of nature, as to the substance of the works, though not as ordered to the supernatural end. So Estius reports on the second book of the Sentences, distinction 26, paragraph 40, proposition 8.

But the Roman School today commonly rejects this view, and in Estius's judgement it plainly leans toward the heresy of Pelagius and is contrary to the Catholic faith.

Latin

XIV. Eandem vero cum Durando sententiam amplexi sunt Scotus & Gabriel Biel. Opinantur enim cum illo, hominem, etiam peccato corruptum, posse omnia praecepta moralia, seu legis naturae, secundum substantiam operum, servare per vires suas, sine gratia, licet non in ordine ad finem supernaturalem: ut testatur Estius in secundum sententiarum, Distinctione vigesima sexta paragrapho quadragesimo propositione octava. Verum haec sententia in Schola Romana communiter hodie rejicitur. Atque Estii judicio manifestum est illam ad Pelagii haeresin spectare, & contrariam ad fidem Catholicam.

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