Description
Grace and Freedom represents Lonergan’s access into material that may occupy him All over his lifetime. On the comparable time this is a manifestation of the pondering that has made him some of the international’s most advantageous Thomist students.
The extent is in portions. Phase One is a brand new version of “Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace within the Considered St Thomas Aquinas”, 4 articles written via Lonergan in 1941-forty two, first Printed in guide shape in 1971. This version contains new notes and indices. Phase is Lonergan’s doctoral dissertation, “Gratia Operans”, submitted to the Gregorian School, Rome, in 1940. Printed right here in complete for the primary time, the dissertation supplies vital context and history for the articles within the first Phase. Lonergan’s thesis is that, from the 16th century onwards, commentators on Thomas Aquinas lacked historic awareness, raised questions that Thomas had by no means thought to be, and obfuscated the problems. Lonergan’s success is composed in having retrieved the real place of Thomas via adopting a historic manner that has reconstructed his highbrow building on grace. Nearly all of up to date theologians now trust the implementation of the historic approach. What Lonergan additionally provides is a singular analysis of the errors made via the brand new scholastic authors of their remedy of grace. All over this paintings, Lonergan discovers in Thomas a thoughts in consistent building, exhibiting radical shifts on elementary questions. In combination the 2 portions now not simplest screen an crucial step in Lonergan’s personal building, but in addition make an outstanding contribution to Thomist research.
