Contents

General Editors' Preface to Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan

Editors' Preface

PART ONE: GRACE AND FREEDOM OPERATIVE GRACE IN THE THOUGHT OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS

I-1 Historical Background

1 St Augustine's De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio

2 St Anselm

3 Peter Lombard

4 The Transition

5 Conclusion

I-2 The General Movement of Aquinas's Thought

1 The Unity of Gratia Gratum Faciens

2 The Ambiguities of Gratia Gratis Data

3 Gratia Operans in the Three Great Commentaries

4 The Multiplicity of Gratia Gratum Faciens

5 Gratia Operans in the De Veritate

6 Gratia Operans in the Summa Theologiae

7 Conclusion

I-3 Habitual Grace as Operans et Cooperans

1 The General Nature of Habits

2 Habitual Grace as Gratia Sanans

3 The Infused Habit as a Premotion

4 Conclusion

I-4 St Thomas's Theory of Operation

1 The Idea of Causation

2 Causation in Time

3 Aristotelian Premotion and Thomist Application

4 The Essence of the Idea of Application

5 Universal Instrumentality

6 The Analogy of Operation

7 Conclusion

I-5 Divine Transcendence and Human Liberty

1 The Freedom of the Will

2 Divine Action on the Will

3 The Possibility of Contingence

4 The Possibility of Sin

5 Conclusion

I-6 Actual Grace as Operans et Cooperans

1 Gratia Cooperans in the De Veritate

2 Gratia Praeveniens in the Contra Gentiles

3 Conversion

4 The Definition of Gratia Operans

5 Actus Interior et Exterior

Concluding Summary

PART TWO: GRATIA OPERANS A STUDY OF THE SPECULATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE WRITINGS OF ST THOMAS OF AQUIN

Preface

Introduction

II-1 The Form of the Development

1 The Content of Speculative Theology

2 Elements in Speculative Theology

3 Phases in the Development of Theological Speculation

4 General Antecedents of the Development in St Thomas's Doctrine on Operative Grace

5 The Methodological Conclusion

II-2 The Data of the Inquiry

1 St Augustine's De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio

2 St Anselm

3 Peter Lombard

4 St Albert the Great

5 St Thomas's Commentary on the Sentences

6 St Thomas in the De Veritate

7 From the De Veritate to the Prima Secundae

8 Summa Theologiae, 1-2, q. lll, a. 2

9 Summary

II-3 The First Subsidiary Investigation: The Idea of Operation in St Thomas

1 Posse Agere, Actu Agere

2 Physical Premotion

3 Application

4 Virtus Instrumentalis

5 The Degrees of Causality

6 The Theory of Cooperation

7 Summary and Conclusions

II-4 The Second Subsidiary Investigation: Divine Operation in the Will

1 The Idea of Liberty

2 The Possibility of Liberty

3 Transition from the Modern Viewpoint

4 The General Theory of the Need of Operative Grace

5 Special Theory of the Need of Operative Grace

6 The Motion and Control of the Will

7 Conclusion

II-5 Interpretation of St Thomas's Articles on Gratia Operans

1 The Position of the Commentary on the Sentences

2 The Position of the De Veritate

3 The Position of the Prima Secundae: Habitual Grace as Operative

4 The Position of the Prima Secundae: Actual Grace as Operative

5 The Movement of Thought

Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography of the Works of St Thomas Aquinas

Index of Concepts and Names

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Index of Loci

Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases