In recent times, the question of the relationship between nature and grace has expanded into a search for the identity of Catholic theology in general and thereby into a struggle for its interpretive sovereignty, which moves between the commitment to "Tradition" or "aggiornamento" and thus not infrequently between a scholastic or patristic approach. Under the premise of a consensual warning against supposed new editions of a Stockwerktheologie, this contribution shows, by means of some reflections on the pivotal concept of natura pura, how patristic-inspired thinking actually resists an often sweepingly made assignment of itself to Ressourcement theology and is able to develop a high degree of de-escalation capacity in this debate.
07 November 2022
Patristic and Ressourcement Contributions to a Renewed Theology of Grace and Nature
Lecture Number Three in Grace & Nature: Contemporary Controversies, with Fr Philipp Gabriel Renczes, SJ, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Theology & Professor, Systematic and Patristic Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Visiting Professor, Historical Theology, Pontifical Augustinian Institute.
In recent times, the question of the relationship between nature and grace has expanded into a search for the identity of Catholic theology in general and thereby into a struggle for its interpretive sovereignty, which moves between the commitment to "Tradition" or "aggiornamento" and thus not infrequently between a scholastic or patristic approach. Under the premise of a consensual warning against supposed new editions of a Stockwerktheologie, this contribution shows, by means of some reflections on the pivotal concept of natura pura, how patristic-inspired thinking actually resists an often sweepingly made assignment of itself to Ressourcement theology and is able to develop a high degree of de-escalation capacity in this debate.
In recent times, the question of the relationship between nature and grace has expanded into a search for the identity of Catholic theology in general and thereby into a struggle for its interpretive sovereignty, which moves between the commitment to "Tradition" or "aggiornamento" and thus not infrequently between a scholastic or patristic approach. Under the premise of a consensual warning against supposed new editions of a Stockwerktheologie, this contribution shows, by means of some reflections on the pivotal concept of natura pura, how patristic-inspired thinking actually resists an often sweepingly made assignment of itself to Ressourcement theology and is able to develop a high degree of de-escalation capacity in this debate.
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