Congruistn.
Theology.
One who holds the doctrine of Congruism n.; applied to one of the parties in the great controversy, which began c. 1580 in the Roman Catholic Church, about the source and condition of the efficacy of grace. Also attributive.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Congruity The Will, in the Language of the Congruists, does always infallibly, tho voluntarily, follow what appears best.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 384/1 The three first of the Thomist propositions are admitted by that large number of Jesuit theologians known as Congruists, but they make the efficacity of grace depend, not on anything in the grace itself, but on the fact that it is given under circumstances which, as God foresees, are suitable to the dispositions of the recipient.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 385/2 In 1613, Aquaviva, general of the Jesuits, required the members of his order to teach the doctrine on grace known as congruism.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 385/2 The Molinist and Congruist theories are held by many theologians who are not Jesuits.
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