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The Stuff of Grace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Thomas Gilby O.P.
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God is too good to be used or fitted into our human schemes, and loving him above all means a complete outgoing from the frets of our creaturely condition. Nevertheless it does not follow that the workings of grace in us have to material or texture, or, if these are present, then that they hold no theological interest. Hence the title is chosen deliberately.

I suppose one of the hydras haunting the spiritual life comes from misunderstanding the all-or-nothing principle. God is recogized as the infinite good, which indeed he is, but this infinity in made both so big and individualized that it elbows out all other goods. This emphatically God does not do, otherwise when we called him creator it would be only of a shadow world. Again, it is feared that if you love things, and especially if you enjoy doing so, you dissipate what should be reserved for him alone.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 12 , Issue 141 , March 1958 , pp. 393 - 400
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Copyright © 1958 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 The Life of the Spirit, xn, 135, 137. September, November, 1957.

2 III Contra Gentes, 69. For application of the principles see Summa Theologka, la. vi, 2, 4; xi, 3; xix, 2; xlv, 3, 4; xlix, 3.

3 Enarrationes in psalmos, cv, 2.

4 II Cor. 6, 14-16.

5 II Cor. 6, 16.

6 Tit. 3, 5.

7 I Cor. 2, 14.

8 Tit. I, 9.

9 2a-2ae. exxxiii, I, ad 1.

10 Ia. xxvi, I, 3.

11 I John, 3, 2.

12 Ia. x, 2,3; xii, 8; Ia-2ae. iii, 2, 6, 8; v, 4.

13 IV de Genesi ad litteram, litteram, xv,26.

14 2a-2ae. xix, 10; xxiii, 1; clxxxiii, 1; clxxxiv, I, 2.

15 Gal. 23; la-2ae. lxx, I, 2.

16 Soiiloquia, II,

17 ia-2ae. ex, 1.

18 See also la. xx, 2.

19 Wisd. 11, 25.

20 Ia-iae. ex, 1.

21 Ia. xxi, 2, 4; la-2ae. lxxxv, 1, 2.

22 John, 3, 1-8.

23 Ia-2ae. ex, 1.

24 2a-2ae. xxiii,2.

25 Ia. xcviii, 2 ad 3; Ia-2ae., lvi, 4; lix, 2, 5; 2a-2ac; cxli, 3; cxlii, 1; civ, 1.

26 Ia. xlv, I, 4; I; cv, 5.

27 Gen. 1, 20.

28 Ia-2ae. ex, 2.

29 For principles see Ia-2ae. lii, 1, 2; 2a-2ae. xxiv, 4, 5 , 6.

30 Luke 10, 41.

31 Ia-2ae. cx, 3.

32 Ia-2ae. lv. 2; lviii, 1.

33 Ia. lxxvii, 1.

34 II Pet.I, 4.

35 Eph. 5,8.

36 Ia. lxxix, 7; Ixxxvii, I, 2; xciii, 4, 7; Ia-2ae. cxii, 5; cxiv, 8.

37 I Cor. 4, 4.

38 ia-2ae. ex, 4; xlix, 1, 2, 3.

39 Ia-2ae. l, r, 2

40 Ia-2ae. ex, 2, sal contra.

41 2a-2ae. xxiv, 3, ad 2. Disputations, XXVII de Veritate, 2, ad 7