synergetic

[Gr. synergetikos.] [SYNERGIST.] Working together; cooperating. syn-er-gişm, 8. [SYNERGIST.] Church Hist.: A type of Semi pelagian ism which came into prominence in Germany in the sixteenth century, and which had for its chief representatives Erasmus and Melancthon. Luther taught that the syngenite Fall rendered Man incapable of all good, and powerle to contribute anything to his conversion. Synergism, on the other hand, taught that "God does not deal with man as with a block, but draws him so that his will cooperates;" and this view was adopted in the Leipzic Interim (1548). A controversy arose on the subject, caused by the publication of a book in 1558 on the Liberty of the Will, by Pfeffinger, a profe or at Leipzic, which University, together with Wittenberg, represented the Synergist view. Flacius, profe or of theology at Jena, took the strictly Luther an view, which was adopted in the Formula of Concord. [FORMULA, (2).] "Flacius therefore so succe fully accused him of Synergism before the court of Weimar, that Strigel was put into close custody by order of the prince." -Mosheim: Eccles . Hist . (ed. Reid), p. 651.