Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Physical Premotion

There is an interesting discussion at Prosblogion that has been touching on issues of Banezianism, or the doctrine of physical premotion. For a very long time discussions of free will, grace, and providence were dominated by the dispute between the supporters of the doctrine of physical premotion (following Bañez's interpretation of Aquinas) and supporters of the doctrine of middle knowledge (following Molina's interpretation of Aquinas). For an account of physical premotion by a noted Banezian, see Garrigou-Lagrange here (second section) and here (second and third sections).