Molinistn.1adj.
/ˈməʊlᵻnɪst/, U.S. /ˈmoʊlənəst/ Theology.
A. n.1
A believer in the doctrine of Molinism (Molinism n.1); a follower of Luis de Molina.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > grace > doctrine concerning grace > [noun] > molinism > believer in
Molinist1655
1655 J. Owen Vindiciæ Evangelicæ xxxi. 646 The Molinists and Jesuits on the one side, with the Jansenians, or Bayans on the other.
1730 A. Bower Historia Litteraria (1731) 1 No. 3. 193 Here our Author takes notice..[that] the Opinions of the Molinists gain'd ground apace.
1757 H. Mann Let. 29 Jan. in H. Walpole Corr. (1960) XXI. 48 Nobody pretends to guess as yet whether the coup came from a Jansenist or Molenist.
1777 B. Franklin Let. 4 Oct. in Papers (1986) XXV. 25 He seems as much heated about this one Point, as the Jansenists and Molinists were about the Five.
1859 All Year Round 19 Nov. 82 The Molinists, were..analogous to our High-Church party.
1879 Catholic World June 423/2 A true Molinist will make an ‘honourable exception’ to the scholastic axiom, omne quod est in potentia non reducitur in actum nisi per id quod est actu.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XIII. 610/2 They [sc. the Scotists]..took up a middle position, rejecting both the predetermination of the Thomists and the scientia media of the Molinists.
1974 F. L. Cross & E. A. Livingstone Oxf. Dict. Christian Church (ed. 2) 334/1 It [sc. Congruism] was strongly advocated c. 1580 by certain Jesuits, esp. the Molinists.
1991 Philos. Perspectives 5 428 The Molinist denies that accidental necessity is closed under (contingent) entailment.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Molinism or Molinists.
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Molinistic1669
Molinist1768
1768 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1809) II. 481 The Molinist party had tried to discredit these miracles.
1854 Biblical Repertory Oct. 662 To him belongs the credit of having then received, the Molinist, or what was afterwards called in Holland the Remonstrant doctrine.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 384/1 The Molinist and Congruist theories are held by many theologians who are not Jesuits.
1947 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 8 453 Even he [sc. Augustine] was ambiguous, depending on whether he was seen by the Molinist Jesuits, a Cartesian voluntarist like Malebranche, [etc.].
1993 Philos. Q. 43 420 On the Molinist picture,..God can bring about what creatures freely do, without undermining that freedom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Molinistn.2
/ˈməʊlᵻnɪst/, U.S. /ˈmoʊlənəst/ Theology. rare.
A Quietist; a follower of Miguel de Molinos.
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quietist1685
Molinist1690
Molinosist1728
1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1720) I. iii. 174 What is called by the Stoicks Apathy, or Dispassion; by the Scepticks Indisturbance; by the Molinists Quietism..seems all to mean but great Tranquility of Mind.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. v. 151 Never will you say ‘..such warrant have the Molinists For daring reprehend us as they do’.
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