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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Capital Grace
The habitual, created grace of Christ inasmuch as it is communicated by Christ the Head of the Church to the members of His Mystical Body. Because of the fullness of this grace, every grace received...
Divinization / Theosis
The process by which human persons are transformed in their being (and, consequently, in their actions) by grace. Such supernatural transformation belongs to the entitative order and is not a juridica...
Hypostatic Union
A theological term used to express the revealed truth that the one divine person or hypostasis of the Word subsists in two natures, divine and human. As the culmination of controversies spanning more...

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