Divine Causality and Human Free Choice : Domingo Báñez, Physical Premotion and the Controversy de Auxiliis Revisited.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Framing the Question -- 2 The Aim and Scope of this Study -- 3 Rationale -- 4 The Form of this Study -- Chapter 1 An Historical Introduction to the Controversy de Auxiliis -- 1 The First Period: Open Scholarly Engagement (1582-1594) -- 2 The Second Period: Papal Intervention and the Congregatio de Auxiliis (1594-1607) -- 3 Resurgences -- Chapter 2 Domingo Báñez on Divine Causality and Human Free Choice -- 1 Divine Art: The Idea of Physical Premotion -- 2 Báñez on Free Choice -- 3 Human Freedom, Physical Premotion and Sin -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Domingo Báñez's Critique of Molina -- 1 Molina's Teaching on Free Choice, Divine Causality and Providence -- 2 A Survey and Condensation of Báñez's Critique of Molinism -- 3 Báñez's Critique of Molina's Doctrine of Free Choice and Divine Causality -- 4 Báñez's Critique of Middle Knowledge -- Appendix: Do the Limitations of Correspondence-Type Truth Theories Undermine the Grounding Objection? -- Chapter 4 Luis de Molina's Critique of Báñez -- 1 The Historical Context of Molina's Condemnation of Báñez -- 2 The Central Issue of Dispute: Báñez's View on the Efficacy of Divine Causality -- 3 Three Problematic Outworkings of Báñez's View on the Efficacy of Divine Causality -- 4 The Root of the Problem: God Predetermines All Human Actions -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Physical Premotion or Aristotelian Premotion? The Proposal of Bernard Lonergan -- 1 Lonergan's Critique of Báñez -- 2 Lonergan's Interpretation of Aquinas -- 3 A Constructive Critique of Lonergan's Interpretation -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Creation, Causal Priority and Human Freedom:Revisiting Thomas Aquinas -- 1 The Thesis that Aquinas Understands God's Motion of the Human Will as an Exercise of God's Creative Causality.

2 A Textual Argument for Understanding God's Motion of the Human Will as an Exercise of His Creative Causality -- 3 Aquinas on the Status of God's Creative Action: An Exposition of ST I q. 45 a. 3 -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 God Creates Human Free Choices: An Explanation and Defense -- 1 Literary Origins of the View -- 2 What it Means to Say Human Acts of Free Choice are Created by God -- 3 Five Potential Objections Briefly Considered -- 4 A Suarezian Objection and Counterproposal: Divine Concurrence Revisited -- 5 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

R.J. Matava explains physical premotion as defended by Báñez in the Controversy de Auxiliis. Finding the critiques of Báñez and Molina convincing, Matava argues for an alternative rooted in Aquinas's teaching on creation.

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