Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Merit and Cooperating with God for Salvation

Merit is, as St. Augustine said, “God crowning His own gifts.” My understanding of Catholic soteriology is not that we are somehow coming up with a “righteousness of our own” at all. The Catholic Catechism cites this very utterance. We understand God’s grace and our appropriation of it, as of a piece (not opposed to each other), according […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2018/01/merit-cooperating-god-salvation.html

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