Course Description
The course will begin with an examination of the Scriptural witness to grace before proceeding to look at a small selection of the Church Fathers on its deifying power. St. Augustine, the Doctor of Grace, will of course be afforded due attention. Naturally, particular attention will be given to St. Thomas’s theology of grace. Its Scriptural foundation, its deifying power, and its relationship with the theological virtues, the other infused virtues, and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit will be emphasized. The course will conclude by studying the various division of grace delineated by Thomas.
Bibliography
O’CALLAGHAN PAUL, Children of God in the World: An Introduction to Theological Anthropology, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2016; O’REILLY KEVIN E., O.P., The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Willing in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Leuven/Utrecht: Peeters/Thomas Instituut, 2013; NORMAN RUSSELL, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.