Aquinas theorised that there were links between Nature and Grace, but with what justification could his scholastic construct give to support the hunch?.This artificial division was first given by the Greeks, and later articulated greatly by Plato and Aristotle (who, incidentally passed it on through Islamic and Christian Sciencific writing).Nature was the word he used to sum up all that was physical, of this world us, our work, our sex lives, our dinners, our bodies, things outside of ecclesiastical existence. Grace is the collective word he used to describe all things of the spiritual realm prayer, priesthood, preaching, heaven, angels etc. Thomas Aquinas opened the discussion of, or perhaps we should say, the division between Grace over Nature.Sproul’s comments), and probably not at all helped by my hatched job in this summary, it is nevertheless really very helpful, short book to buy and enjoy. I found this helped me a great deal, and though the scholarship may not be totally sound (see my footnote with R.C. Some thought it was a reworking of Dutch Philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd’s ‘Twilight of Western Civilisation’, but Schaeffer said that it was not, that this was his own thesis, though no doubt he was influenced by his friend Hans Rookmaaker who taught with and admired Dooyeweerd and his work. This book became something of a classic in its day, and students should be encouraged to dialogue it even now – or perhaps especially now. Summary of Francis Schaeffer’s classic book by Henry Vyner-Brooks
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