Predestination - The Meaning of Predestination in Scripture and the Church

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In Predestination, the great Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange gives a masterful theological exposition of the classic Thomistic teaching on this, the most difficult of all theological tracts, showing the reconciliation - as far as it can be understood this side of the Beatific Vision - of the various elements of the Church's teaching on Predestination.

Based on Scripture and Tradition, this book gives the history of Catholic thought on this topic, showing how centuries of Catholic theologians have wrestled to reconcile the two truths of divine predilection and the damnation of souls.  In the process, the author explains the teachings of St. Augustine, St. Anselm, Peter Lombard, St. Bonaventure, St. Albert the Great, Duns Scotus, St. Robert Bellarmine, Suarez, and others.  He also analyzes the problems with Molinism, Congruism, Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, Protestantism (Luther, Zwingli, Calvin), Baianism and Jansenism.

Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange sheds the great light of St. Thomas Aquinas on all the questions surrounding Predestination, emphasizing the gratuity of Predestination and the absolutely fundamental principle of the divine predilection, i.e., God's loving in advance from all eternity.  He also covers efficacious and sufficient grace, free will, God's antecedent and consequent will, His justice, His mercy, and the question of whether His foreknowledge of merits is the cause of Predestination.  In every respect, Predestination is a magnificent exposition of this difficult subject for serious students and for all who are seeking a profound, theological, Catholic understanding of the mystery of election and reprobation.

Table of Contents:

Part I: The Teaching of the Church and the Theological Systems
Predestination According to Scripture
The Teaching of the Church
Difficulties of the Problem
Classification of the Theological Systems
St. Augustine and His First Disciples

Part II: The Principal Solutions of the Problem
Section 1: Predestination According to the Scholars of the Middle Ages
The Theologians Prior to St. Thomas
Doctrinal Principles of St. Thomas
Predestination According to St. Thomas
Scriptural Background for the Teaching of St. Thomas
Views of the First Thomists
The Teaching of Duns Scotus
Section II: Predestination According to the Tenets of Protestantism and Jansenism
Protestantism
Baianism and Jansenism
Section III: Predestination According to the Teaching of the Post-Tridentine Theologians
The Theory Advocated by Molina
The Congruism of St. Robert Bellarmine and Suarez
The Congruism of the Sorbonne
The Teaching of the Post-Tridentine Augustinians
The Teaching of the Post-Tridentine Thomists
Synthesis
Definition of Predestination
The Cause of Predestination
The Motive for Reprobation
On the Certainty of Predestination
Conclusion

Part III: Grace and Its Efficacy
Efficacious Grace and Sufficient Grace According to Scripture and the Declaration of the Church
The Divine Motion in General
What Physical Premotion Is Not
Physical Premotion According to Classic Thomists
Conformity with the Mind of St. Thomas
Ways in Which Physical Premotion Operates
Arguments for Physical Premotion
The Divine Motion and the Freedom of Our Salutary Acts
The Physical Act of Sin

Appendix I: Efficacious Grace and Salutary Acts Easy to Perform
Appendix II: The Opinion of Father Billot, S.J. on the DIvine Motion
Appendix III: Some Objections Against Premotions
Appendix IV: Dr. H. Schwamm's Recent Work
Index

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