Autor: Stebbins, J. Michael

Buch: The Divine Initiative

Titel: The Divine Initiative

Stichwort: Gnade: gratia creatrix, salvatrix (Hugh of St Victo); Ungeschuldetheit d. Gnade: Unterschied zur Schöpfung

Kurzinhalt: what it is that sets grace apart from other divine gifts;

Textausschnitt: 15/3 Lonergan points out that, because they could not articulate the specifically supernatural character of grace, the early scholastics were hard-pressed to determine what it is that sets grace apart from other divine gifts (G0:41; GF:14). For grace was conceived largely in terms of its unmeritability; but every gift of God - in other words, creation in its entirety - is given without regard to any creature's merit. As a result, twelfth-century theologians had to grapple with the question whether every divine gift without exception should be designated an instance of grace. At least one author, Adam Scotus, answered in the affirmative; but most, presumably because they wanted to account for the dogmatic data linking grace to salvation, sought to find some grounds for restricting the meaning of gratia. (71; Fs)
16/3 One approach lay in introducing distinctions within grace. Hugh of St Victor, for example, distinguished creating grace (gratia creatrix) from saving grace (gratia salvatrix): (71; Fs)

18/3 Another approach sought to restrict the meaning of grace on etymological grounds. One of its more notable exponents was Cardinal Laborans, whose effort ...