CONTENTS
PART ONE: GRACE IN ITS ESSENCE
I. Habitual grace and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost
The Judaeo-Christian revelation of God's love. —2. The presence of immensity by creation and the presence of indwelling by grace. —3. Difference between human love, which presupposes the being of things, and divine love which creates the being of things. —4. The 'common' love of God for all creatures and his 'special' love for his friends. —5. The universe of natures and that of grace. —6. Habitual or permanent grace. —7. In what senses is it finite and infinite? —8. Some Scripture texts. —9. Different degrees of grace correspond to different degrees of indwelling. —10. Sons of God, brothers of Jesus, co-heirs with Christ.
II. Actual Grace
1. Actual and habitual grace. —2. Divine foreknowledge and human freedom. —3. The scheme of the good act; opposed errors of Pelagius and Luther; the Catholic doctrine. —4. Molinism and Thomism. —5. Divine motion and human freedom. —6. Divine foreknowledge of the good act. —7. The scheme of the bad act. —8. 'Thy destruction comes from thee, O Israel; from me comes thy help'. —9. Normal and miraculous divine initiatives. —10. Sufficient and efficacious grace: Pascal, the "Lettres Provinciales," Jansenism. —11. Divine foreknowledge and the initiating of evil acts. —12. The drama of history. —13. Inequality of grace. —14. Charismatic graces in the service of love.
III. Predestination
1. The mysteries of grace are mysteries of love accepted or refused. —2. Texts from St. Paul on predestination. —3. Refusal on the part of the non- predestined. —4. The erroneous doctrine of double predestination to hell or to heaven. —5. Predestination as a speculative question and as a cause of personal anxiety. —6. St. Paul's doctrine on the mystery of Israel: God's summons, neglected by the mass of the Jews, passes to the Gentiles, but will return to Israel. —7. At the time of Israel's general defection, 'a remnant' remained faithful. —8. Distinction between vocations concerning the present time, in which God is completely free to choose or reject whom he will, and vocations concerning eternal life, in which he is bound by his love. —9. Exposition of Romans IX as applied to vocations concerning the present life. —10. The same concerning eternal life. —11. Conclusion.
IV. Justification, merit, consciousness of the state of grace
1. What is 'justification'? —2. 'God does not justify thee without thyself'. —3. The stages of justification. —4. Justification a greater work than creation. —5. Miraculous types of justification. —6. Is venial sin always avoidable? Does it lessen sanctifying grace? To what degree is grace, once lost, regained? —8. The doctrine of 'merit'. —9. Our merits are gifts of God. —10. Merit and reward. —11. Can one merit for another? Merit "de congruo" means more than simple prayer. —12. Can we merit temporal goods? —13. Can we merit the grace of final perseverance? —14. Can we 'know' if we are in the state of grace? The Protestant view. —15. The Catholic view: no absolute certainty apart from the case of confirmation in grace. —16. The reason for this. —17. Moral or practical certainty of the state of grace: the signs of the state of grace. —18. Fluctuations of conscience.

