God's Grace and Human Action by Wawrykow Joseph P.;

Author:Wawrykow, Joseph P.; [Wawrykow, Joseph P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL067000 Religion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN: 4455320
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2016-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

150 De Veritate q. XXIX, a. 6c: “Sed hoc non videtur esse verum propter duo; primo, quia contrariatur probationi Augustini, per quam contra Pelagianos probat gratiam sub merito cadere non posse, quia ante gratiam nulla sunt mérita nisi mala, cum ante gratiam homo sit impius, et ‘meritis impii non gratia, sed poena debetur’; posset enim dici quod gratiam quis meretur per opera quae post acceptam gratiam facit.” When Thomas rejects with Augustine the “merit” of the first grace, he is thinking of merit in the fullest sense, condign merit. See the discussion of Thomas’s position in the Scriptum on the possibility of “meriting” justifying grace. I shall argue shortly in the text that Thomas’s retention of the facere quod in se est in De Veritate in the sense advanced by the Scriptum makes it most probable that he considers in De Veritate the autonomous action of the sinner done to please God congruently meritorious.

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