Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Thomistic Study of Divine Assistance, Human Freedom, and Catholic SoteriologyBy Joseph Pohle
Length11h 14m
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In *Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise*, Joseph Pohle offers a systematic Catholic account of divine grace, distinguishing the transient aids by which God moves the intellect and will from the enduring gift that sanctifies the soul. Treating grace within the larger architecture of creation, sin, redemption, justification, and supernatural destiny, the work clarifies its causes, effects, necessity, and relation to human freedom, merit, and the sacraments. Its method is recognizably scholastic: precise definitions, carefully ordered distinctions, theological objections, and appeals to Scripture, the Fathers, councils, and authoritative Catholic teaching. The result belongs to the tradition of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neo-scholastic dogmatics, seeking to present inherited doctrine with conceptual rigor in an age of theological controversy. Pohle was a German Catholic theologian whose writings formed part of the broader revival of Thomistic and systematic theology encouraged by the modern Catholic magisterium. His treatment reflects the period's concern to defend the gratuity and supernatural character of salvation while also explaining how grace operates without abolishing created freedom or moral responsibility. He writes not as a speculative innovator but as a disciplined expositor of Catholic dogma, translating a dense theological inheritance into a coherent manual for clergy, seminarians, and serious readers. This book is recommended to readers who want a sustained, historically situated account of grace in Catholic theology. It is especially valuable for students of Thomism, dogmatic theology, soteriology, and the theology of justification, as well as for anyone seeking to understand how classical Catholic thought articulates the encounter between divine initiative and human cooperation. Though demanding, its structured argument rewards patient reading.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length11 hrs 14 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Part I. Actual Grace
4Chapter I. The Nature Of Actual Grace
5Section 1. Definition Of Actual Grace
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6Section 2. Division Of Actual Grace
7Chapter II. The Properties Of Actual Grace
8Section 1. The Necessity Of Actual Grace
9Article 2. The Necessity Of Actual Grace For All Salutary Acts
10Article 3. The Necessity Of Actual Grace For The States Of Unbelief, Mortal Sin, And Justification
11Section 2. The Gratuity Of Actual Grace
12Section 3. The Universality Of Actual Grace
13Article 3. The Predestination Of The Elect[6q]
14Article 4. The Reprobation Of The Damned
15Chapter III. Grace In Its Relation To Free-Will
16Section 1. The Heresy of The Protestant Reformers And The Jansenists
17Section 2. Theological Systems Devised To Harmonize The Dogmas. Of Grace And Free-Will
18Article 2. Molinism And Congruism
19Part II. Sanctifying Grace
20Chapter I. The Genesis Of Sanctifying Grace, Or The. Process Of Justification
21Section 1. The Necessity Of Faith For Justification
22Section 2. The Necessity Of Other Preparatory Acts. Besides Faith
23Chapter II. The State Of Justification
24Section 1. The Nature Of Justification
25Section 2. Justifying Or Sanctifying Grace
26Article 3. The Supernatural Concomitants Of Sanctifying Grace
27Section 3. The Properties Of Sanctifying Grace
28Chapter III. The Fruits Of Justification, Or The Merit Of Good Works
29Section 1. The Existence Of Merit
30Section 2. The Requisites Of Merit
31Section 3. The Objects Of Merit
32Memorable Quotes
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