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Pohle’s volume on grace explores the centrality of grace in Christian belief and practice. He writes at length on the relationship between unbelief and grace, as well as God’s will to save. A significant portion of this volume is devoted to free will, including the understanding of free will in the writings of Luther and Calvin, along with the Council of Trent. Pohle also deals with justification...

to fly; similarly, man without grace is not only handicapped but absolutely incapacitated for the work of salvation. Considered under this aspect, actual grace is called gratia elevans, because it elevates man to the supernatural state.29 This double causality of grace is well brought out in Perrone’s classic definition: “Gratia actualis est gratuitum illud auxilium,30 quod Deus31 per Christi merit a32 homini lapso33 largitur, tum ut eius infirmitati consulat,34 … tum ut eum erigat ad statum supernaturalem
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