• Description

    Building on Book Five’s considerations of the person and redemptive deed of Christ, Book Six of Matthias Joseph Scheeben’s Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics offers his account of the subjective realization of salvation through Christ’s bestowal of grace. This stands as Scheeben’s fullest treatment of the much-contested notion of actual grace and the issues related to the sixteenth-century de auxiliis controversy concerning predestination and how God moves the human will. Progressing in three parts, Book Six commences with an analysis of the concept of actual grace, establishing how God can move the will without compelling it and providing a richly developed context for understanding God’s motive influence. The second part examines three principal heresies concerning grace—namely, Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, and the Reformation doctrines—using these as a basis for evaluating the Catholic dogmas about grace that were articulated against them. Finally, in the third part Scheeben explores the necessity of grace in light of man’s fallen condition and his supernatural end.

  • PRODUCT DETAILS

    Authors: Matthias Joseph Scheeben
    Pages: 536
    Publish Date: 2023
    Publisher: Emmaus Academic
    Hardcover ISBN: 978-1645852391
    Hardcover SKU: A0334
    Categories: Academic, Books, eBooks, Emmaus Academic, Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics, Texts in Translation, Theology

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