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Often appears with: equity, mercy, and pardon · prophecy and revelation · working miracles · word of wisdom · word of knowledge · who can work miracles · speech-based gifts · sin, guilt, and repentance · sanctifying grace · sacrifice and ritual · religious persecution and toleration · prooftexts
Usually: commentary or gloss (2) · list or catalogue (2) · reverence (2) · reflection (1) · injustice endured (1) · curiosity (1) · resignation (1)
“It is natural to man to arrive at the intelligible truth through its sensible effects.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) · observation
In Question 111 Aquinas outlines a five-part division of grace and argues grace is fittingly divided into sanctifying grace (uniting the person to God) and gratuitous grace (enabling one to help another).
(Rom. 2:6): "And if by grace, it is not now by works, otherwise grace is no more grace." Therefore grace can be distinguished by its having one only or both. *I answer that,* As the Apostle says (Rom. 13:1), "those things that are of God are well ordered [Vulg.: 'those that are, are ordained by God]." Now the order of things consists in this, that things are led to God by other things, as Dionysius says (Coel. Hier.…
Aquinas turns to the “word of wisdom and the word of knowledge,” introducing the questions whether any gratuitous grace attaches to words and to whom such grace is fitting.
considered in itself. Secondly, because the gift of prophecy regards the knowledge of things, which is more excellent than the knowledge of words, to which the gift of tongues pertains. Thirdly, because the gift of prophecy is more profitable. The Apostle proves this in three ways (1 Cor. 14); first, because prophecy is more profitable to the edification of the Church, for which purpose he that speaketh in tongues p…
Aquinas introduces Question 178 on the grace of miracles, asking whether there is a free (gratuitous) grace for working miracles and whether it is suitable for particular people.
shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders." Therefore it would seem that the working of miracles does not belong to a gratuitous grace. Obj. 3: Further, miracles are divided into "signs," "wonders" or "portents," and "virtues." [*Cf. 2 Thess. 2:9, where the Douay version renders *virtus* by "power." The use of the word "virtue" in the sense of a miracle is now obsolete, and…
This passage lists biblical prooftexts (many from Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the Gospels) used to argue that Christ’s sacrifice secures reconciliation and redemption, grounded in God’s free grace.
1246 Rom. v. 10. 1247 Gal. iii. 10‐13. 1248 Col. i. 21, 22. 1249 1 John iv. 19. 1250 Eph. i. 4, 5. 1251 John iii. 16. 1252 Rom. v. 10. 1253 Rom. v. 8. 1254 Rom. v. 19. 1255 Gal. iv. 4, 5. 1256 Matt. iii. 15. 1257 Matt. xx. 28. 1258 1 Cor. xv. 3. 1259 John i. 29. 1260 Rom. iii. 24, 25. 1261 Rom. v. 9, 10. 1262 2 Cor. v. 21. 1263 Phil. ii. 7, 8. 1264 John x. 15, 18. 1265 Isaiah liii. 7. 1266 John xv…
Teresa claims she asks God repeatedly to grant such graces to someone who will use them better, admits her humility fails, and insists salvation requires God’s great grace rather than her strength.
other two faculties quickly begin to molest it. As the will is calm, it entrances them again; they are quiet for another moment, and then they recover themselves once more. 17. In this way, some hours may be, and are, passed in prayer; for when the two faculties begin to drink deep, and to perceive the taste of this divine wine, they give themselves up with great readiness, in order to be the more absorbed: they fol…