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Compendia 01: How Can God Move the Will Infallibly and Yet Contingently?

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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Is Coercion Responsive to the Will?

St. Thomas: The very movement of the will is an inclination to something. He says it's impossible for a thing to be absolutely coerced or violent and voluntary. God can still move a voluntary creature voluntarily, because that which he is moving the voluntary creature to is a limited particular good. But with a limited good, there's no absolute necessity," St. Thomas writes.

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