Theological Theses · §2516 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Molina departs from both; sufficient aid given to all

Thesis LXXVIII. The teaching of the most celebrated Jesuit Luis de Molina, whom many others follow, is far removed from the view of Jansenius of Ypres and of the recent Thomists as well. To make this clearer, the substance of his view on efficacious and sufficient grace should be briefly restated from his writings.

He will not have any aid of grace called sufficient except one which, once given, requires nothing further on God's part for the action actually to follow. In this sense he teaches that God grants sufficient aid of grace both to those who do not act well and do not turn to God and to those who are converted and act well.

Latin

LXXVIII. Caeterum a sententia Jansenii Iprensis, & recentiorum etiam Thomistarum, multum distat doctrina Ludovici Molinae Jesuitae celeberrimi, quem plures alii sequuntur. Quod ut clarius pateat, summa sententiae illius, circa gratiam efficacem atque sufficientem, ex scriptis ejus est breviter repetenda. Ille ergo non vult ullum gratiae auxilium sufficiens dici, praeter illud, quo posito, nihil amplius ex parte Dei praerequiritur, ut actio reapse sequatur. Atque hoc modo sufficiens gratiae auxilium docet a Deo concedi, tam iis qui bene non agunt, neque se ad Deum convertunt, quam iis qui convertuntur & bene operantur.

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