Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Victorine School
Lombard and Scholastic Causality
The Development of Interpretive Traditions: The Franciscan School
Aquinas and the Thomist Tradition
Moral Causality
The Tridentine Reform
Contemporary Implications
2. Creation, Artistry, and Dispositive Instrumental Causality in Aquinas’ Commentary on the Sentences
God and Creation
Sacraments as Dispositive Instrumental Causes of Grace
The Sacraments as Signs
The Received Tradition
Grace and Re-creation
Christological Instrumentality
3. From the Sentences to the Summa
De veritate and De Potentia Dei
Summa Theologiae
Grace, Instrumentality, and Obediential Potency
Sacramental Grace and Instrumentality: John of St. Thomas
4. Early Modern Approaches to the Sacraments: Melchior Cano
Humanism and Scholasticism
Cano and Renaissance Humanism
De Locis
Cano on the Sacraments: Moral Causality
Bañez
Merit
De Auxiliis and Modern Theology
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index