SOURCE: Trubiano, Mario F. “The Theological Disputes and the Guzmán Affair in El burlador and El condenado: Theological Preoccupation or Satirical Intention?” In Tirso's Don Juan: The Metamorphosis of a Theme, edited by Josep M. Sola-Solé and George E. Gingras, pp. 95-105. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

In the following essay, Trubiano views El burlador de Sevilla and El condenada por desconfiado as reflective of contemporary debates regarding the relationship between free will and divine grace.

The problem of whether the “new” man, novus homo, was truly endowed with free will even though, as theology teaches, everything pertaining to second cause, including man's actions, is preconceived and preordained by God, touched the very being and existence of the “new” man, affecting his essence and his metaphysical rights. In the pulse of this “new” man began to beat what Goethe two hundred years later...