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- Title
St. Thomas Aquinas, Perseverance, and the Nature/Grace Debate.
- Authors
MEINERT, JOHN
- Abstract
The nature/grace debate and the exegetical interpretation of St. Thomas spawned by it need not be treated in isolation. There is another analogous case in which the principles of nature, desire, debt, and grace are operative: the relation of redeemed nature to the grace of perseverance. This paper argues that, according to Aquinas, there is a precognitional inclination based on habitual grace to persevere usque ad finem, but the means to enact this inclination are not due to redeemed nature. It offers two ways of interpreting this gratuity, one absolute and one relative. Finally, it draws implications of this analysis for the interpretations of Henri de Lubac and Lawrence Feingold.
- Subjects
THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274; PERSEVERANCE (Theology); NATURE &; religion; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Angelicum, 2016, Vol 93, Issue 4, p823
- ISSN
1123-5772
- Publication type
Article