'Types' of Grace | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:29.1	My job is to pick up from where Father White left off
0:32.0	and talk a little bit about types of grace.
0:35.5	And Father White, I think, did a great job kind of setting us up for talking about this.
0:40.7	I'm going to pick up with a couple things that he mentioned and expand on them just a little
0:44.4	bit and then try to move the ball a little further.
0:48.5	This is an enormous subject, and we're talking about, in a way, like if we're going to do a retreat on grace or some talks on grace, what are we talking about?
0:59.2	We're talking about something about God, as Father White pointed out, and also something about how we encounter God or are given a share in God's own life? You can even say in God's own nature. Now, that's a very
1:17.6	audacious thing to say, but sacred scripture does in fact say that this is what God does for us.
1:26.1	He gives us a share in the divine nature.
1:29.9	Is it possible for a human creature to become God of the creature's nature?
1:39.7	Absolutely not, completely impossible, beyond our capacity. And yet, God wants us to have something of that.
1:49.7	So this is what we're talking about, and in a certain way when we're talking about the subject
1:53.3	of grace then, we're talking about the whole Christian mystery or the whole thing. So it's a difficult subject for that reason because it touches absolutely everything
2:04.1	and it includes in a way absolutely everything.
2:06.6	So you can, you know, it's like a sweater that is starting to fray, like you pull on one
2:11.4	thread and pretty soon you're going to unravel the whole sweater.
2:14.4	You have to be careful.
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