https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57361 2026-04-23T06:48:09Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57359 Title: Saint Augustine's doctrine on grace (3) Authors: Lupi, Joseph Abstract: With Pelagius, Augustine admitted that men imitate Adam by sinning, and just men imitate Christ by leading a good life, but this is not all. At the beginning of his treatise on the remission of sins Augustine writes that all those who through disobedience break the commandments of God imitate Adam, but we must distinguish between a bad example which influences the will of a sinner, and the state in which those born in sin find themselves. Holy men imitate Christ by acting justly, but besides imitating Christ these holy people have the grace of God working in their souls illuminating and justifying them. This grace is also given to baptised infants, who quite evidently cannot imitate anyone. Therefore as Christ, in whom we all live, besides giving grace and justification to all those who imitate Him, also gives to the faithful the mysterious grace of his Holy Spirit, a grace which he infuses mysteriously also in infants, so also Adam, in whom we all die, besides giving a bad example to all those who imitate him by willingly breaking God's commandments, also left the stain of carnal concupiscence in all who are his descendant. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57357 Title: Book reviews [Melita Theologica, 54(2)] Abstract: 1/ Edward Farrugia's review of a book The Venerable Icon of Our Lady of Philermos in Art, History and Religion by Elizaveta Zolina. -- 2/ Reg Naulty's review of a books "Arise, My Love ... " Mysticism for a New Era and Mystical Theology by William Johnston. -- 3/ Anthony Abela's review of a book Current Trends in Scripture Translation by Philip A. Noss. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57354 Title: Catholicism : the end of a 'world'? Authors: Abela, Anthony M. Abstract: Anthony M. Abela' s observation about the book Catholicisme, lafin d'un monde by Daniele Harvieu-Leger and a revised edition of a renowned book on Catholicism, on the social aspects of dogma, written about 60 years ago by the late Cardinal Henri de Lubac. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57346 Title: Faith and reason : a process view. The Lord's prayer to the one and only God Authors: Sia, Santiago Abstract: For an Aquinas Lecture, it seems to me that a topic that was of particular concern to Thomas Aquinas; namely, the relationship between faith and reason is eminently appropriate. Moreover, the recent publication of the encyclical Fides et Ratio, especially since it gives Aquinas special consideration, provides an added reason for this choice. In this lecture I shall first present my observations on the encyclical. I shall then offer another view of the relationship between faith and reason in the hope of furthering the discussion on this topic. I refer to this view as 'process' because it is based on the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It will also be evident that the term 'process' is used because the relationship between faith and reason that is envisaged is regarded as "in process." 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z