Grace and Freedom : : Operative Grace in the Thought of St.Thomas Aquinas / / Bernard Lonergan; Robert Doran, S.J., Frederick Crowe, S.J.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lonergan, Bernard,
• HerausgeberIn: Crowe, S.J., Frederick,; Doran, S.J., Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Crowe, Frederick E. S. J.,; Doran, Robert M. S. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.)

Grace and Freedom represents Lonergan's entry into subject matter that would occupy him throughout his lifetime. At the same time it is a manifestation of the thinking that has made him one of the world's foremost Thomist scholars. The volume is in two parts. Part One is a new edition of "Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas", four articles written by Lonergan in 1941-42, first published in book form in 1971. This edition includes new notes and indices. Part Two is Lonergan's doctoral dissertation, "Gratia Operans", submitted to the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1940. Published here in full for the first time, the dissertation provides important context and background for the articles in the first part. Lonergan's thesis is that, from the sixteenth century onwards, commentators on Thomas Aquinas lacked historical consciousness, raised questions that Thomas had never considered, and obfuscated the issues. Lonergan's achievement consists in having retrieved the actual position of Thomas by adopting a historical approach that has reconstructed his intellectual development on grace. The majority of contemporary theologians now agree with the implementation of the historical method. What Lonergan also adds is a unique diagnosis of the mistakes made by the modern scholastic authors in their treatment of grace. Throughout this work, Lonergan discovers in Thomas a mind in constant development, displaying radical shifts on fundamental questions. Together the two parts not only reveal an essential step in Lonergan's own development, but also make an impressive contribution to Thomist studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface to Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan -- Editors' Preface -- PART ONE: GRACE AND FREEDOM OPERATIVE GRACE IN THE THOUGHT OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS -- I-1 Historical Background -- I-2 The General Movement of Aquinas's Thought -- I-3 Habitual Grace as Operans et Cooperans -- I-4 St Thomas's Theory of Operation -- I-5 Divine Transcendence and Human Liberty -- I-6 Actual Grace as Operans et Cooperans -- Concluding Summary -- PART TWO: GRATIA OPERANS A STUDY OF THE SPECULATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE WRITINGS OF ST THOMAS OF AQUIN -- Preface -- Introduction -- II-1 The Form of the Development -- II-2 The Data of the Inquiry -- II-3 The First Subsidiary Investigation: The Idea of Operation in St Thomas -- II-4 The Second Subsidiary Investigation: Divine Operation in the Will -- II-5 Interpretation of St Thomas's Articles on Gratia Operans -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography of the Works of St Thomas Aquinas -- Index of Concepts and Names -- Index of Loci -- Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases