prevenient

• The point is crucial: the notion that piety is a precursor to our knowledge of God commits Calvin to something like "prevenient grace." —  Mere Orthodoxy
• Basically, the Holy Spirit applies general revelation (information known to all people at all times via creation and conscience) and applies it salvifically with the aid of prevenient grace. —  Provocations & Pantings
• Another key doctrine is prevenient grace. (v) Arminian theology does not deny the sovereignty of God, unless that is taken to mean "meticulous control over all of creation, including the foreordination of evil." —  Triablogue
• Man is totally depraved and can do no good without God's prevenient grace. (vii) Arminian theology is a theology of grace. —  Triablogue
• We are told that "prevenient grace" is the "convicting, calling, enlightening, and enabling grace of God …" (35). —  Triablogue

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms