Lecture Number One in Grace & Nature: Contemporary Controversies, with Fr Simon Francis Gaine, OP, DPhil (Oxon), Fellow & Lector, Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, Director & Pinckaers Chair in Theological Anthropology and Ethics, Faculty of Theology, Angelicum, Rome.
Catholic theologians have normally taught that, before the Fall, the first human beings were gifted with God’s supernatural grace. St Thomas held that this grace was bestowed on Adam and Eve from the very first moment of their existence. So grace was originally given together with nature. But was this grace also somehow the grace of the Second Adam, Jesus Christ? Was Christ somehow given together with nature and grace from the very beginning?
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