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Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas by Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 implement

Who reads Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas?

Author

Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran

Publisher

Published for Lonergan Research Institute of Regis College, Toronto, by University of Toronto Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802034731

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Religion

Rating

4.33 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14