 previous article in this issue | next article in this issue  |
|
Document Details : Title: The Condemned Biography of Leonardus Lessius and the Debates on the Efficacy of Grace Author(s): STANCIU, Diana Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 91 Issue: 2 Date: 2015 Pages: 257-269 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.91.2.3085092 Abstract : This paper explores the links between the condemnation of J. Wijns’ biography of Lessius and his long-debated theological views on the efficacy of grace, expressed not only in his well-known work De gratia efficaci (1610) and in his De perfectionibus moribusque divinis (1620), but also in some passages in the biography. Especially six of Lessius’ theological views censured by the Louvain Faculty of Theology in 1587 and presented in the fifth chapter of the biography may have been at issue. The fact that these six views could also be found in Lessius’ De gratia efficaci, which was also referred to in the biography, may strengthen the assumption that there was indeed a link between the two. I am thus arguing that these six censured sentences may represent one of the main reasons for the condemnation of the biography. |
|
