TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swafford,Andrew Dean
AU  - Oakes,Edward T.
TI  - Nature and grace: a new approach to Thomistic ressourcement 
SN  - 9780227903872
AV  - BT761.3 .S93 2015eb
U1  - 234 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - James Clarke & Co.
KW  - Lubac, Henri de,
KW  - Feingold, Lawrence.
KW  - Long, Steven A.
KW  - Scheeben, Matthias Joseph,
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - History
KW  - Grace (Theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Dogma, Development of
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Soteriology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History
KW  - Feingold, Lawrence
KW  - Grace (Theology) -- History of doctrines
KW  - Long, Steven A
KW  - Lubac, Henri de, 1896-1991
KW  - Scheeben, Matthias Joseph, 1835-1888
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - BibliographyBack Cover; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part One. Henri de Lubac; 2. De Lubac on Nature and Grace: The Historical and Theological Context; 3. Foundations for Nature and Grace; Part Two. The Contemporary Resurgence of the Pure-Nature Tradition; 4. Lawrence Feingold and the Defense of the Pure-Nature Tradition; 5. Steven A. Long on Natural and Eternal Law; Part Three. The Reconciliation of Extrinsicism and Intrinsicism in Matthias Joseph Scheeben; 6. Matthias J. Scheeben on the Relationship of Nature and Grace; 7. Conclusion
N2  - Conventional wisdom has it that thinking on nature and grace among Catholic intellectuals was severely clouded by the work of Cajetan and his fellow Thomistic commentators from about the sixteenth century to the eve of Vatican II. Henri de Lubac has rightly been given credit for pointing this out; and to all appearances, de Lubac's influence won the day, as can be seen by the imprint of his thought upon not just the Second Vatican Council, but also the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. However, in recent years, a new crop of Thomistic scholars has arisen who question whether de Lubac's word on nature and grace should be the last; hence, the debate over the nature-grace relation, so heated at mid-twentieth century, has been stirred once again. Dr. Swafford here offers a "third way" by way of the nineteenth-century German theologian Matthias J. Scheeben who, for some reason, has never really been considered especially relevant to this debate. Swafford shows that Scheeben can capture the very best of both sides, while at the same time avoiding the characteristic pitfalls so often alleged against each
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