prevenient

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He is almost entirely dependent upon God's "prevenient grace," which gives him the desire to do God's will, and "subsequent grace," which enables him to do it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Semipelagians ascribed the dispositions necessary for justification to the natural efforts of the will, thereby denying the necessity of prevenient grace.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

In the former alternative we have a prevenient necessity which determines the will ad unum and consequently destroys its freedom.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

But grace signifies a temporal effect, which can precede and follow another; and thus grace may be both prevenient and subsequent.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint