The Effects of Grace, Justification & Sanctification | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

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This lecture was given on December 16th, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Thomistic Institute) is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:29.0	My job in this session is to talk about questions 113 and 114 and their subject,
0:36.9	which is the effects of grace. And Aquinas identifies
0:40.7	two principal effects, justification and merit. So these are two big subjects. Justification.
0:50.2	That is being, you might say being the effect of being reconciled with God, put back into right order with him, receiving the gift of righteousness or justice.
1:01.2	That's coming out of St. Paul's letter to the Romans.
1:05.0	And then merit.
1:07.0	And we're going to have an opportunity to see some of the differences between a Protestant,
1:13.2	especially a Lutheran approach and a to mystic or Catholic approach.
1:20.4	But of course, there's a lot of material, and I'm going to try to do something in the middle here
1:24.4	about the possibility of how God works within the will
1:28.9	and then the ways that we can understand the human will not just going along with this
1:37.8	but perhaps resisting because in a way that's also at issue when we're talking about the
1:44.0	transformation of the sinner
1:46.0	or the reception of grace by the sinner because before you're transformed by grace, you're a sinner.
1:53.4	You're resisting.
1:54.4	Okay.
1:55.4	There's of course a lot of other good things to say. But the first thing I'd like to point out, and this isn't in the text that you have,
2:06.4	but it's the prologue to question 113, where Aquinas is taking up the new subject.
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