Nature and Grace

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By attending to the use of the correlative par of terms, 'nature and grace' and 'nature and the supernatural,' the systematic difference between both pairs, and their emergence at different periods of theological reflection this seminar course intends to examine a central aspect of the 'genetic code' of Christian theology, pertaining to the first pair, arguably from Irenaeus on, but indisputably from Augustine on, and pertaining to the second pair arguably from Thomas Aquinas on