Theol. [ad. mod.L. synergismus, f. συνεργός working together, συνεργεῖν to co-operate.] The doctrine that the human will co-operates with Divine grace in the work of regeneration.
1764. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., Cent. XVI. III. II. i. § 32 (1833), 488/2. He [sc. Strigelius] was accused by Flackius of Synergism at the court of Saxe-Weimar.
1828. Pusey, Hist. Enq., I. 23. Even laymen, who would not sign the confutation-book (against Synergism) were excluded from acting as sponsors.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2279/2. Synergism is a sublimated type of Semi-Pelagianism.
