Predestinace před a po poznání zásluh u vybraných kapucínských autorů
Predestination Before and After the Knowledge of Merit in Selected Capuchin Authors

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the scholastic theological problem of whether God predestines before or after the knowledge of merit, ante or post praevisa merita. The more general question is whether there is any cause at all on the part of the predestinated person for predestination, or at least any reason for salvation or reprobation. The text focuses on how the Capuchin theologians of the 16th and 17th centuries, the period of the so-called Second Scholasticism, dealt with the above-mentioned problem. The starting point for these thinkers was St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s (1221-1274) Commentary on the Sentences of Peter of Lombardy. In his interpretation, Pedro Trigoso (1533-1593) brings Bonaventura closer to St. Thomas Aquinas on this issue. According to the Angelic Teacher, there is no reason for predestination on the part of the predestinated. Bonaventure, on the other hand, clearly speaks of a reason, although he does not wish to identify it precisely. He merely says that it is a certain congruence (adequacy) on the part of the predestinated. According to Gaudentius of Brescia (1612-1672), who took the opposite position to Trigoso, this congruent reason is the good action of man, and this is how he understands Bonaventure’s concept. The study presents and analyses the arguments of the aforementioned authors. It also shows how some of the difficulties mentioned by the two Capuchins are solved by the Jesuit conception based on the so-called middle knowledge in God.

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