States of human nature and its fundamental elements in Luis de Molina's Concordia

This study discusses the four states of human nature distinguished by the Spanish Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) in his Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis, divina praescientia, providentia, praedestinatione et reprobatione (1588). In this context, we want to show that Molina's aim is to affirm that the possibility of orientation to a supernatural order and the faculty of free will are both dynamic and constitutive elements of human being.