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The Holy Spirit and Moral Action in Thomas Aquinas is a detailed
study of how, according to one of Christianity's greatest visionary
thinkers, God's Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through
humanity's moral activity. Jack Mahoney, SJ, documents, notably
from Aquinas's commentaries on scripture, how "the grace of the
Holy Spirit" prompts and influences people's minds, as well as
their decisions to act, occasionally in unexpected ways. Through
the gift of connatural wisdom, the Spirit empowers humans to
appreciate God's own wise and loving design for the whole of
creation, and enables them to cooperate freely in fulfilling their
unique part in it.
This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas,
God's Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through humanity's
moral activity. Jack Mahoney, SJ, documents from Aquinas's
interpretation of scripture his portrait of the Holy Spirit in
action, showing that for Aquinas, "the grace of the Holy Spirit"
was a matter of the "prompting" or instigation (instinctus) of the
Holy Spirit, who "drives" God's children in their decisions (Romans
8:14) and enlightens their minds through the "law of the Spirit of
life" (Romans 8:2). Mahoney examines Aquinas's descriptions of
various biblical characters responded in the Spirit to personal
moral choices and dilemmas, sometimes in unexpected ways, and how
the same can happen today, especially in the light of biblical and
Aristotelian teaching on the flexible application of general moral
rules in varying circumstances. He elaborates the three "constants"
that serve for Aquinas as criteria for authenticating the Spirit's
dynamic presence in people's moral activity. Finally, Mahoney shows
that the overarching structure of Aquinas's thought on the Holy
Spirit's role is the deployment in history of God's all-embracing
wisdom, "ordering all things well" (Wisdom 8:1).
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