Final Flashcards
Gratia Sanans
Healing Grace - redeems and heals. Divine response to sinful man
Chris Crucified
Gratia Elevans
Actual Grace - telos end
Trinitarian life, elevating grace that leads us to sharing in divine life
Gratia gratum faciens
Sanctifying grace - the grace which makes man pleasing to God and unites them
Sim iustus et peccator
We are at the same time just AND sinners, central to Lutheran faith = grace alone for justification
Uncreated Grace
God Himself who communicates himself, particular to HS
Created grace
The EFFECTS given by divine grace which permit us to reach the end of Grace > God
Immanent Act
Grace is an immanent act as grace contains in itself the goal of the action
Meritum de Congruo
Congruence
God is the beginning of all grace
Meritum de Condigno
Equivalence
There is a certain proportionality between our cooperation and God’s actions - hesed
Hen
Favor/benevolence from someone who has power, free choice of God
Used with Noah
Hesed
Grace/Mercy
Generous act that God works in order to bring man into relationship with Himself. Friendship instead of superiority
Perichoresis
Interpenetrative communion in the Trinitarian communion
Adiutorium sine quo non
Referencing Adam
Grace was a “help without which he could not persevere.”
Adam was given the grace to not sin, if he didn’t need grace then his will would have been enough, which it wasn’t
Gratia efficax
Grace in man who receives grace in cooperation, complete and fully realized/transformative
Gratia sufficiens
Grace in man’s history
Grace IN PROCESS
Remains given to us and dwells in us, not necessarily producing visible effects
Gratia operans
Only by divine will and initiative that grace is communicated and given
Gratia cooperans
Divine freedom is received by human freedom. This allows grace which is always operans to become COOPERANS
De Deo creante et elevante
Man and his relationship to God, who is the supernatural end of human life
Transitive act
act toward an accomplishment
Gratia preveniens
God gives first his gift of grace to us
apprestamentum beni
God’s impulse toward the good of man
praesentia inhabitationis
God’s presence in us by grace
praesentia divinitatis
God’s power in all things
