Person and Grace: Fehlner’s Franciscan Approach – KBGF 25

 

We take a break from Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner's book "The Theologian of Auschwitz" and instead look at a paper of his from the 1960's on Person and Grace from the perspective of St. Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus.
The Theologian of Auschwitz: https://www.lectiopublishing.com/books.php?b=16Course
Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HB8IdpWaqzeCKZT3H7USoPSe_9R6tO-eEw3oGlCUOps/edit?usp=sharing
Dr. Goff's Acadamia.edu page: https://bcs-us.academia.edu/JIsaacGoffPlaylist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLejh_e0-LN4xW3K_TNHt6mPocdcGs8qSQ

00:00:00 Start
00:00:10 Point of the article: Sanctifying grace in life of believer and in Christ's humanity
00:00:42 Looking at Soul in Grace, Scotus Vs Neo-Thomists and their quasi-formal causality
00:01:37 Sanctifying grace and the Analogy of Formal Causality
00:02:42 Created Actuation of Uncreated Act in Self-Communication of the Divine to the Creature
00:06:02 Scotistic analysis of Person and Personality: Univocity and Disjunctive Transcendentals
00:13:57 Sanctifying Grace in Franciscan School
00:16:26 Essential Ordered Causes: Will and Spirit, Con-determination
00:19:37 Will and the whole Person
00:22:29 Habit of Sanctifying Grace
00:23:02 Franciscans vs. Thomists on Natural Desire for God
00:25:17 Two different act of love: Natural or Charity
00:27:52 Sanctifying Grace just is Divine Charity
00:28:57 Love/Caritas: So what is it
00:33:28 Grace does not act freely in you, you act freely in grace
00:35:32 Divine Acceptance = Merit?
00:40:07 Pure Perfections
00:40:37 Participation and Relation
00:44:52 Divine Persons and Human Persons
00:50:52 Created Human Nature becoming personal
00:57:17 Person as termination of a rational nature
01:00:42 Personification and Personalization of Jesus and Mary
01:08:57 This new norm is the first norm: Jesus and Mary-Spirit

Ave Maria!

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