Theological Theses · §649 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Recent Thomists: sufficient help to be able — but efficacious help needed to act

Agreement on sufficient grace for all still splits on what it means.

Recent Thomists: efficacy equals physical determination of free choice.

All get sufficient help to be able to work well — yet with it alone no one ever does.

Actual well-doing needs a further efficacious help, really distinct, not given to all.

Latin

III. Veruntamen omnes qui in ista Thesi generali de sufficienti gratia omnibus concessa convenire videntur, gratiam illam non eodem modo explicant atque intelligunt. Etenim qui recentiores Thomistae appellantur, quique docent gratiae efficaciam consistere in liberi arbitrii Physica quadam determinatione, dicunt omnibus hominibus gratiam a Deo sufficientem dari, quoniam illis a Deo auxilium sufficiens datur ut bene operari possint: quamvis cum isto auxilio nunquam aliquis bene operetur; sed ad hoc necessario requiratur aliud auxilium efficax a sufficiente realiter distinctum, quod voluntatem ad bonum determinet, & quod a Deo omnibus hominibus non conceditur. Itaque juxta illos, datur omnibus hominibus gratia sufficiens ut bene operari possint: sed tamen quae sine novo auxilio non sufficiat ut actu bene operentur.

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