Theological Theses · §2386 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Estius and the recent Thomists: grace the total cause

Thesis LXVII. Estius and the more recent Thomists, by contrast, hold that God's grace is the total cause of a good work in such a way that it produces all the good there is in the work. The whole work must therefore be credited to divine grace as its total cause, and not merely as a partial one.

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LXVII. Contra vero Estius & Thomistae recentiores docent gratiam Dei ita esse totalem causam boni operis, ut quicquid est in opere boni totum faciat, & totum opus sit gratiae divinae ascribendum, tanquam causae totali, non solum tanquam partiali.

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