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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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St. Thomas Aquinas discusses how God can move the human will infallibly and yet without imposing upon it any absolute necessity. This issue of divine causality and human freedom is a very complicated one. The way in which St. Thomas holds that God can do this does not fall into a kind of Calvinism, Janssenist determinism or view of grace as irresistible.

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