It is a serious distortion of Aquinas, driven either by a misunderstanding of St. Thomas, or worse, a woeful ignorance of his writings. I fear that this “bad rap” is received uncritically by one generation of Protestants and then passed on to the next. If there was anything St. Thomas did not do, or certainly did not desire to do, it was to separate nature and grace. He fought his most strenuous battle against those who did separate nature and grace. At a time when Christianity faced its most serious