"Divine Adoption Through Grace" by Mary Gordiana Ney
 

Date of Award

6-1958

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Theology

First Advisor

Malachi Donnelly

Second Advisor

Cyril Donahue

Third Advisor

Floyd Stanton

Abstract

The plan of this paper is to proceed from a consideration of the natural to the supernatural. To arrive at definite concepts of the supernatural, we must begin by examining the concept of nature, because the supernatural presupposes the natural. The supernatural is referred in particular to the lite of grace in the just soul, which transforms man from creature to child of God. This adoptive sonship or divine adoption through grace is the focal point and theme of the essay. Here again the counterpart and antithesis between the natural and supernatural forms the basis of the discussion-natural birth and natural life in relation to supernatural rebirth and supernatural life, legal adoption compared and contrasted with divine adoption. We then proceed to further implications of divine adoption in the status of man with relation to God, his Father.

Comments

An essay submitted to the faculty of the Theology Department, Graduate School, Marquette University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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