The Division of Grace in the Prima Secundae | Dr. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This talk was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the intellectual retreat, "Grace," offered for students and young professionals in the Washington, D.C. area, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. Adam Eitel is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at Yale Divinity School. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.

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0:12.0	Last night, we talked about the necessity of grace, and today I'm going to try to address some of the questions that were provoked by the discussion
0:23.7	of grace and its necessity.
0:26.0	And there was a question that was raised earlier, for example, this morning about logical
0:31.8	versus essential distinctions.
0:34.1	And this would be an opportunity to revisit a question like that.
0:39.3	So I think I will be brief, I think, I think, and we'll take it from there.
0:50.3	So last night I alluded to an analogy that St. Thomas proposes having to do with the favor of a king.
1:08.8	And a king's favor is elicited by something good in the subject something praiseworthy
1:19.9	something that's been done some capacity for doing something good in the future. It's a response to that which exists in the subject.
1:37.9	Grace is like and unlike that.
1:45.0	It's like that insofar as it is, it denotes a kind of a kind of favor.
1:53.0	Most basically, it has to do with a state of affairs, of being in God's favor, of being pleasing to God.
2:05.3	So you remember when the Holy Spirit visibly descends upon on Jesus,
2:13.9	and the father has heard saying, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased.
2:20.4	Father is pleased with the son
2:23.4	in the way that God is always already
2:27.2	eternally pleased with himself.
2:31.6	You know,
2:40.7	the Lord is the font of all goodness.
2:44.5	He's immeasurably good.
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