Monergistic Molinism

Several philosophers and theologians (including Stump, Cross, Timpe, Keathley, and Evans) have attempted to formulate monergistic, soft libertarian accounts of salvation. These accounts hold that the sinner has the ability to either resist or to do nothing at all with God’s universally given saving...

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Auteur principal: MacGregor, Kirk R. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sciendo, De Gruyter 2018
Dans: Perichoresis
Année: 2018, Volume: 16, Numéro: 2, Pages: 77-92
Classifications IxTheo:KDB Église catholique romaine
NBE Anthropologie
NBK Sotériologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Monergism Molinism Pelagianism soft libertarianism grace
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Résumé:Several philosophers and theologians (including Stump, Cross, Timpe, Keathley, and Evans) have attempted to formulate monergistic, soft libertarian accounts of salvation. These accounts hold that the sinner has the ability to either resist or to do nothing at all with God’s universally given saving grace, in which latter case God will save her. However, I wonder with Cyr and Flummer whether these accounts go far enough because the nonresistant sinner voluntarily remains quiescent and is therefore arguably praiseworthy. I aim to remedy this alleged weakness by formulating a possible account on which it never crosses the nonresistant sinner’s mind to resist, making her quiescence an involuntary omission. For all sinners whose minds it crosses to resist, they, on the proposed account, freely choose to resist. Combining Molinism with the scriptural notion of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, I proceed to explain why it may cross the mind of some sinners and not others to resist.
ISSN:2284-7308
Contient:In: Perichoresis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2478/perc-2018-0012