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.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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