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Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace

Murray, Paul D.

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Starting out from John Barclay's Lutheran‐inclined, actualist reading of the in‐breaking quality of grace and the Spirit in Paul, this article asks how a Catholic theology of grace – typically more focused on identifying the relatively stable structures and effects of grace – might with integrity learn from the Barclayan‐Lutheran‐Pauline difference. By pursuing a close, four‐step reading of Thomas Aquinas' theology of grace, as that appears in the Summa Theologiæ and his lectures on the Pauline epistles, the article demonstrates that just such a Catholic appropriation of a more dynamic graced actualism is indeed possible; one which leads, with dynamic integrity, to a deepened understanding, articulation and practice of core Catholic instincts rather than to their reduction or distortion.

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Murray, P. D. (2020). Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 22(1), 83-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12394

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 9, 2019
Online Publication Date Jan 17, 2020
Publication Date Jan 31, 2020
Deposit Date Sep 16, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal International Journal of Systematic Theology
Print ISSN 1463-1652
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 22
Issue 1
Pages 83-112
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12394

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Murray, Paul D. (2020). Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace. The International Journal for the Study of Systematic Theology 22(1): 83-112 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12394. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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