Grace and Justification
Joseph Wawrykow
This essay explores the Catholic teaching on grace through some of classic texts and writers. It begins by comparing Catechism Church The Council Trent’s decree On Justification. Although two differ in strategy (the latter seeking to differentiate itself from emerging Protestant teaching), shows be great continuity with Trent. then considers most influential writers tradition reflection grace, Augustine Hippo Thomas Aquinas (and his successors). incorporates much Augustine’s later teaching, but offers a more expansive account merit sees predestination as matter fore-knowledge than God’s causal activity. ends treatment recent writing subject.