Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl
Book 3 of Matthias Joseph Scheeben's Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics contains his fullest treatments of the divine act of creation and of the created order as a whole, inclusive of both the visible cosmos and the invisible angelic hierarchies. Especially notable is his richly developed account of the nature of the human person as made in the image and likeness of God.

It is in Book 3 that Scheeben provides his most detailed study of grace as the supernatural, considered both in the abstract in its nature and in its actual instantiation in the human and angelic worlds. Scheeben carefully defines and lays out his distinctive doctrine of grace as a "supernature" that elevates and divinizes human beings so that they can partake of the Triune God in the beatific vision as their supernatural final end. He offers a detailed treatment of the relation of grace to created freedom, he clarifies the nature of human receptivity for grace as obediential potency, and he gives his most sustained rendering of man's natural desire to see God. This book also contains Scheeben's fullest account of his controversial teaching on the substantial indwelling of the Holy Spirit within the just.
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Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl
Book 3 of Matthias Joseph Scheeben's Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics contains his fullest treatments of the divine act of creation and of the created order as a whole, inclusive of both the visible cosmos and the invisible angelic hierarchies. Especially notable is his richly developed account of the nature of the human person as made in the image and likeness of God.

It is in Book 3 that Scheeben provides his most detailed study of grace as the supernatural, considered both in the abstract in its nature and in its actual instantiation in the human and angelic worlds. Scheeben carefully defines and lays out his distinctive doctrine of grace as a "supernature" that elevates and divinizes human beings so that they can partake of the Triune God in the beatific vision as their supernatural final end. He offers a detailed treatment of the relation of grace to created freedom, he clarifies the nature of human receptivity for grace as obediential potency, and he gives his most sustained rendering of man's natural desire to see God. This book also contains Scheeben's fullest account of his controversial teaching on the substantial indwelling of the Holy Spirit within the just.
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Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl

Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl

by Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl

Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics Book 3: God in His Fundamental, Original Relation to the World or the Founding of the Natural and Supernatural Order of the Worl

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Book 3 of Matthias Joseph Scheeben's Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics contains his fullest treatments of the divine act of creation and of the created order as a whole, inclusive of both the visible cosmos and the invisible angelic hierarchies. Especially notable is his richly developed account of the nature of the human person as made in the image and likeness of God.

It is in Book 3 that Scheeben provides his most detailed study of grace as the supernatural, considered both in the abstract in its nature and in its actual instantiation in the human and angelic worlds. Scheeben carefully defines and lays out his distinctive doctrine of grace as a "supernature" that elevates and divinizes human beings so that they can partake of the Triune God in the beatific vision as their supernatural final end. He offers a detailed treatment of the relation of grace to created freedom, he clarifies the nature of human receptivity for grace as obediential potency, and he gives his most sustained rendering of man's natural desire to see God. This book also contains Scheeben's fullest account of his controversial teaching on the substantial indwelling of the Holy Spirit within the just.

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BN ID: 2940160924410
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
Publication date: 06/27/2023
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About the Author

Matthias Joseph Scheeben (1835–1888) was a German priest and scholar whose theology points to the inner coherence of the Christian faith and its supernatural mysteries. Notable in his own time, Scheeben later received praise from Pope Pius XI, who in 1935 encouraged study of the late theologian’s works, reflecting: “The entire theology of Scheeben bears the stamp of a pious ascetical theology.” Hans Urs von Balthasar credited Scheeben as “the greatest German theologian to date.” Scheeben’s works include Nature and Grace, The Mysteries of Christianity, and the unfinished Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics.
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