5. Conclusions Link to the full series of posts here. Throughout this series, I have tried to make the case that the Church’s teaching on the nature of sanctifying grace is indespensible to Christianity and the Gospel message. We have seen that God not only came to...
4. Early Church Councils and Magesterial Documents on Infused Grace Through the Council of Trent Link to the full series of posts here. Finally, we now will look at magisterial documents to see what the Catholic Church has actually codified into dogma. As helpful as...
3.1 Aquinas on Cardiac Righteousness and Romans 4 Link to the full series of posts here. Much of what has already been discussed was grounded in the thought of Aquinas and Augustine. Nonetheless, it will be helpful to see their direct words and to see how the teaching...
2.5 Theosis - the purpose of the Christian life Link to the full series of posts here. “Man is not satisfied with solutions beneath the level of divinization.” (Cardinal Ratzinger) As a Catholic, I now see the purpose of life as growing in grace and in holiness on the...
2.4 Mystical Theology on Grace: The Principle of the Interior Life Link to the full series of posts here. I would also like to share a bit from the mystical theology traditions and their view of how infused sanctifying grace and virtues work in our lives. I can’t help...
2.3 Lawerence Feingold on what grace is and why it is a core part of the Gospel - filial adoption and theosis Link to the full series of posts here. Next, I want to spend time on some key ideas about what the nature of grace is from a Catholic perspective and the...
2.2 Some More Modern Catholic Theologians on Romans 4 Link to the full series of posts here. In our last post, we just saw that God’s plan for man is that He will give us a righteous heart (as John Kincaid called it, cardiac righteousness) so that we can become like...
2. Modern Catholic Theologians on Romans 4 and The Nature of Grace Link to the full series of posts here. 2.1 John Kincaid on Cardiac Righteousness A man’s works are not proportioned to causing the habit of this righteousness; rather, a man’s heart needs first to be...
Introduction Link to the full series of posts here. The interior life is for all the one thing necessary. It ought to be constantly developing in our souls; more so than what we call our intellectual life, more so than our scientific, artistic or literary life. The...