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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine, propounded in 1588 by Luis Molina, a celebrated Spanish Jesuit, that the efficacy of divine grace depends simply on the will which accepts it—that grace is a free gift to all, but that the consent of the will is requisite in order that grace may be efficacious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.

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