Conventional wisdom has it that thinking on nature and grace among Roman Catholic intellectuals between the sixteenth century and the eve of Vatican II was severely clouded by the work of Cajetan and his fellow Thomistic commentators. Henri de Lubachas rightly been given credit for pointing this out; and to all appearances, de Lubac's influence won the day, as can be seen by the imprint of his thought upon not just the Second Vatican Council, but also the pontifi cates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. In recent years, however, a new crop of Thomistic scholars has arisen who question whether de Lubac's word on nature and grace should be the last; hence, the debate over the nature-grace relation, so heated in the mid-twentieth century, has been stirred once again. Andrew Dean Swafford here offers a 'third way' by way of the nineteenth-century German theologian, Matthias J. Scheeben, who has been neglected in academic appraisals of the subject until now. Swafford shows that Scheeben captures the very best of both sides, while at the same time avoiding the characteristic pitfalls so often alleged against each.
In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman bishop and martyr, Xystus, were vindicated by myself as if they really were the words of this Sixtus.
XXIV.151-53).34 It is by grace that it knows itself as held by God in the love of God (the 'E se Dio m'ha in sua grazia rinchiuso' of Purg. XVI.40),35 and it is by grace that it knows itself in the rapture of its proper self-surpassing ...
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And we return to mud, or dust, in the sense that dirt— what author William Bryant Logan calls “the ecstatic skin of the earth”—is an endless recycling of all the life that has gone before. When historians sought to exhume the bones of ...
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Representing the opposing position, that God can only be known through divine revelation, Van Wart highlights the work of influential Protestant theologian Karl Barth.
A Brief Catechesis on Nature and Grace
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This book examines nature's sacramental relation to grace.