Six Principles of Predestination

In the medieval Augustinian paradigm of the doctrine of predestination divine love predominates both in God's actions with regard to the predestined and in a real sense also with regard to reprobate. The analogy of divine and human love is present both in the assimilation of the human will to the life of God by the internal working of grace and in the mystery of God's respect for the freedom of human refusal. In what follows then I would like to posit six principles briefly that I take to be normative for any sufficiently balanced Catholic account of predestinations. All that is morally good in the human person comes from the creative activity and providential assistance of God including the free actions