Nature and Grace: A New Approach to Thomistic Ressourcement

A contribution to the debate regarding nature and grace, offering a perspective based on the insights of the 19th-century German theologian Matthias Scheeben.

Conventional wisdom has it that thinking on nature and grace among Roman Catholic intellectuals between the sixteenth century and the eve of Vatican II was severely clouded by the work of Cajetan and his fellow Thomistic commentators. Henri de Lubac has rightly been given credit for pointing this out; and to all appearances, de Lubac's...