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Humanity's Original State | Prof. Reinhard Hütter

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The Root Cause of Earthly Paradise

In Sumateloghe 1, question 97 article 1, Aquinas argues that the indissolubility of the body of original humanity was not due to some intrinsic vigor of immortality. This is a very important point I shall return to later. The root cause of earthly paradise is, I would claim, the quasi-supernatural strength given by God to the soul as such. And with this part now, I'm turning to that part of the lecture that the Condu-Chirmen lecture should be unintelligible. We have reached the crucial question pertaining to the theology of the relevant constitution of original humanity. What is the relationship between original justice and sanctifying grace?

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