22 January 2020
Word of the Day: Molinism
MOLINISM. The theory on grace and free will developed by the Spanish
Jesuit theologian Louis Molina (1535-1600). It teaches that there is no built-in
difference, but only an external accidental difference between sufficient and
efficacious grace. God gives every person sufficient grace for all supernatural
actions he or she is to perform. If one freely accepts the grace offered and
cooperates with it, a salutary action is produced; this co-operation automatically
makes a sufficient grace an efficacious one. If the free will refuses its co-operation,
the grace remains sufficient only. God from all eternity foresees the free consent
of the human will by his infallible foreknowledge of what a person would do
with whatever grace he or she received. Why God chooses to give the person the
precise grace he does, foreseeing whether that person will accept or reject
it, is left as a mystery in God.
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