biography
pronunciation:
[moleena]
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| lived:
| (1535–1600)
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| biography:
| Theologian and Jesuit priest, born in Cuenca, EC Spain. He studied at Coimbra, and was professor of theology at Evora (1568–83). He argued against the Dominican Domingo Báñez and his supporters, that all human beings are endowed with equal and sufficient divine grace without distinction as to their individual merits, and that salvation depends on the sinner's willingness to receive grace. His principal treatise on the matter is Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis (1588, The Harmony of Free Will with Gifts of Grace). The view (later called Molinism) was attacked as a revival of Pelagianism, causing the dispute between Molinists and Thomists. It is brilliantly dramatized by the molinista Tirso de Molina in El condenado por desconfiado. The controversy began in 1588, and became so bitter that all discussion of it was banned by Pope Paul V in 1607. |
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