Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic TreatisePohle, Joseph
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Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise
Pohle, Joseph
Grace (Theology)
_ 115 De Lib. Arbitr._, III, 16: “_Ex eo quod non accepit, nullus reus
est; ex eo autem quod non facit quod debet, iuste reus est. Debet
autem [facere], si accepit et voluntatem liberam et
sufficientissimam facultatem._” On the Jansenist distortions of St.
Augustine’s teaching see Palmieri, _De Gratia Divina Actuali_, thes.
48. The doctrine of the Greek Fathers is thoroughly rehearsed by
Isaac Habert, _Theol. Patr. Graec._, II, 6 sq.
_ 116 Conc. Vat.,_ Sess. III, De Revel., can. 1: “_Si quis dixerit, Deum
unum et verum, Creatorem et Dominum nostrum, per ea, quae facta
sunt, naturali rationis humanae lumine certo cognosci non posse,
anathema sit._”
_ 117 Conc. Vat._, Sess. III, cap. 4: “_Hoc quoque perpetuus Ecclesiae
catholicae consensus tenuit et tenet, duplicem esse ordinem
cognitionis, non solum principio, sed obiecto etiam distinctum:
principio quidem, quia in altero naturali ratione et altero fide
divinâ cognoscimus; obiecto autem, quia praeter ea, ad quae
naturalis ratio pertingere potest, credenda nobis proponuntur
mysteria in Deo abscondita, quae, nisi revelata divinitus,
innotescere non possunt._” (Denzinger-Bannwart, n. 1795.)
118 Nicholas d’Autricourt, a master in the University of Paris, in 1348,
was compelled by the Sorbonne and the Apostolic See to retract a
number of propositions taken from his writings which were infected
with scepticism. These propositions, most of which had been censured
as heretical, and some as merely false, may be found in Natalis
Alexander, _Hist. Eccles._, ed. Bing., XV, 195, and also, with some
explanatory remarks, in Denifle-Chatelain, _Chartularium Univ.
Paris._, II, 1, Paris 1891.
119 “_Klotz-, Stock- und Steintheorie_.”
120 On Traditionalism, see Pohle-Preuss, _God: His Knowability, Essence,
and Attributes_, pp. 44 sqq., 2nd ed., St. Louis 1914.
121 Wisd. XIII, 1 sqq.; Rom. I, 20 sq.; Rom. II, 14 sq. Cfr.
Pohle-Preuss, _op. cit._, pp. 17 sqq.
_ 122 Ibid._, pp. 38 sqq.
_ 123 Summa Theol_., 1a, qu. 2, art. 2, ad 1: “_Deum esse et alia
huiusmodi ... non sunt articuli fidei, sed praeambula ad articulos;
sic enim fides praesupponit cognitionem naturalem, sicut gratia
naturam et perfectio perfectibile_.”
_ 124 Luther’s Werke_, ed. Walch, XII, 400, Halle 1742: “_Alles, was sie
örtert und schleusst, so gewisslich falsch und irrig ist, als Gott
lebt._”
_ 125 Conc. Trid._, Sess. VI, cap. 1 and canon 5.
126 On the _vulnera naturae_ cfr. Pohle-Preuss, _God the Author of
Nature and the Supernatural_, pp. 298 sqq., St. Louis 1912. Already
St. Augustine observed: “_Ad miseriam iustae damnationis pertinet
ignorantia et difficultas, quam patitur homo ab exordio nativitatis
suae, nec ab isto malo nisi Dei gratiâ liberatur._” (_Retract._, I.
9.)
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