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Molinist

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Mo´lin`ist
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.


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connections between Arminius's pastoral experience and his doctrinal ideas, or for transconfessional influences, such as the Molinist debate within the Catholic Church, could have put Arminius's thought in an illuminating perspective.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there was a controversy between Molinist Jesuits and Dominicans regarding the relationship of divine grace with man's free will.
These examples were lampooned by Pascal in the Provincial Letters as examples of the pernicious Pelagianism of the Jesuit Molinists.
 
 
 
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