Introduction

Father Thomas Joseph White gives a keynote address at our 2022 Sakura Doktrina Project Conference on the topic of grace and sanctification. He asks: Can we speak truly of Christ, the person of the Son, as both true God and true man if we are incapable of positive philosophical and natural discourse? In what follows he will present an account of the inward form of the classical use of the communication of idioms in neo-Calcidonian Christology. After this, he argues that the assignments we make of nature terms to Christ in virtue of His divinity and humanity, respectively, also require implicitly that we are naturally capable of thinking out philosophically what it means coherently to speak