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What (who) is EFFECTUAL - definition

SUFFICIENCY OF GRACE

Effectual grace; Efficacious grace; Grace (Irresistible); Sovereign grace; Irresistible Grace

effectual

a.

1.

Operative, successful.

2.

Efficacious, effective, active, efficient, of adequate power.

effectual

If an action or plan is effectual, it succeeds in producing the results that were intended. (FORMAL)

This is the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness.

= effective

? ineffectual

ADJ

Effectual

·noun Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

Wikipedia

Irresistible grace

Irresistible grace (also called effectual grace, effectual calling, or efficacious grace) is a doctrine in Christian theology particularly associated with Calvinism, which teaches that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom he has determined to save (the elect) and, in God's timing, overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel, bringing them to faith in Christ. It is to be distinguished from prevenient grace, particularly associated with Arminianism, which teaches that the offer of salvation through grace does not act irresistibly in a purely cause-effect, deterministic method, but rather in an influence-and-response fashion that can be both freely accepted and freely denied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible grace

Examples of use of EFFECTUAL

1. Now, who would doubt the man’s acumen for effectual humour!

2. But the new avatar may not necessarily be as effectual as the original.

3. If culture were effectual and living, then he would never experience banishment.

4. We trust that not a single week will elapse before we shall be enabled to state, that effectual steps are being taken in all the neighbouring boroughs to secure the return of sound liberal representatives, and to rescue South Lancashire from the reproach of being represented by two conspicuous anti–reformers.

5. In the first query of the night –– and possibly the first in a presidential debate to start with "What‘s up?" –– Zach Kempf of Provo, Utah, pointedly asked the candidates: "What‘s going to make you any more effectual, beyond all the platitudes and the stuff we‘re used to hearing?