Voluntarists and Intellectualists

Voluntarists prioritized the will over the intellect and so naturally taught that God’s choice determined the law. Intellectualists reversed that priority and taught that God’s nature— not something outside and above God but the immutable God himself— decisively grounded the law. God, therefore, did not decide the law but revealed his character in it.

 

Harrison Perkins, Catholicity and the Covenant of Works (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020), 97