TH 643 - Nature and Grace

(3.00 cr.)

Disputes regarding the question of the relationship between our natural human capacities and God's grace are examined. The first half of the course focuses on the history of such disputes, including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Luther, and Jansenism. The second half of the course focuses on how disputes over nature and grace were central to Catholic theology in the twentieth century and continue to be important today.