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Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this topical dictionary, Dr. Richard Muller defines key Latin and Greek theological terms found in various works of dogmatics and theology. Muller goes beyond the mere definition, however, by tracing the word’s historical roots and logical connections in such doctrines as the Trinity, incarnation, atonement, the fall, natural theology, authority and revelation, sacraments, and the church and...

necessitas coactionis). The human predicament is therefore defined neither as the loss of the faculty of will nor of the inward freedom, or libertas, of the will. What has been lost is the freedom of choice, specifically, the ability freely to choose the good and freely to avoid that which is evil. The libertas voluntatis essentialis (essential freedom of will) remains intact, but the will itself is fallen and suffers from the defect and stain of sin (SEE macula). The Lutheran scholastics argue further
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