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"The human soul has obediential potency. Now, obediential potency is a term that Thomists will use to name a certain kind of potentiality that is in all created things to be moved by God in some way.
But the obediential potency that we are talking about here is special — it is proper to human beings — and it is the intrinsic capacity of the soul to receive grace.
The human soul is intrinsically open to receiving a special gift of love from God that gives us life of a higher order. It does not intrinsically or essentially have that life, but it is intrinsically and essentially capable of receiving it from God as a sheer gift.
In the Thomist account, there is not simply a discontinuity between our human nature, or our human soul, and the life of grace; rather our soul is open to grace by nature." Fr. James Brent, O.P.
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This talk was given on May 27th, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul.
The handout for the talk can be found here: tinyurl.com/mr224yuv
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About the speaker:
Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.
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