Wanted-vs-Permissive-Will Doctrine
The doctrine that the Divine Will operates in two formally named modes: (1) the wanted way — designs It accomplishes and sanctities It forms, in which the creature receives the wanted act “equipped with light, with grace, with help, nothing lacking”; and (2) the permissive way — when creatures “with the free willing of the will try to bind the hands of the Omnipotent One,” the Divine Will permits justice and chastisement to flow freely, “blinding, such that who knows where they go to hurl themselves” — the permissive mode being not God’s primary intention but the judicial consequence of creaturely resistance to the wanted will. (E)
Anchors: Ephesians 1:9-11; Romans 1:24-28; Romans 9:18; Psalm 81:12; John 12:39-40; 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 — Appearances: 6. Full Registry entry.