Course Description
The course begins by highlighting how St. Thomas grounds the moral life in the intra-Trinitarian life of knowing and loving. A treatment of grace, that is to say, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believer, along with an examination of the theological and infused virtues, as well as of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, follows. As the title of the course indicates, the aim is to show forth the transforming effects of grace.
Bibliography
Summa Theologiae (accessible at www.aquinas.cc).
KEVIN E. O’REILLY, O.P., The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Willing in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Leuven: Peeters, Leuven, 2013.
KEVIN E. O’REILLY, O.P., By Nature and By Grace: The Life of Mind in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, Angelicum 91, 2014, 609-636.
DARIA SPEZANO, The Glory of God’s Grace: Deification According to St. Thomas Aquinas, Naples, FL: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2015.
HERWI RIKHOF, The Creativity of a Theologian: Aquinas’s Transformation of the Aristotelian Concept of Virtue, Verbum, 2002, 89-99.