De Gratia - Divisions of Grace Quiz

Dr. Whitmore

Uncreated Grace

the whole trinity communicating itself to the blessed in heaven and to the just on earth

Created Grace

A supernatural gift, freely given by God to a rational creature, which is ordered to eternal life.

Sanctifying grace (gratis gratin famines - ‘grace making pleasing’)

grace that sanctifies an individual, granting him a participation in the divine nature and ordering him to God as his supernatural end

gratuitous grace (gratia gratis data ‘grace freely given’)/charismatic graces

grace given to allow the recipient to help others to God

Operative Habitual grace

grace that makes the person pleasing to God by means of God directly healing the person wounded by sin and elevating him to God’s own level, providing a new state of being by infusion

Cooperative Habitual Grace

grace that disposes the agent to actions that will lead him to God as end

Operative Auxilium

grace that aids the person by God simply moving his will

Cooperative Auxilium

Grace that aids the person by God moving his will. but in such a way that the will also moves itself

Sufficient grace

resistible grace

efficacious grace

Irresistible grace, grace which obtains its effect

Healing/medicinal grace

grace given in order to elicit morally good (natural) acts and remove the moral impotency of the nature wounded by Original Sin

Elevating Grace

grace given to elicit salvific acts and remove the physical impotence of nature for the supernatural

Exciting/stimulating grace

grace by which we are first moved to do good and to avoid evil

helping grace

grace by which we are helped to perform freely that good or avoid freely that evil, to which stimulating grace moves us

prevenient/antecedent grace (gratia praeveniens)

grace that precedes and affects a deliberate act of will

Subsequent/consequent grace (gratia subsequent)

grace following a deliberate act of will

Grace of God

grace given before the fall

grace of Christ

grace given after the fall by virtue of Christ’s merits

external grace

grace given outside of the soul that affects man morally (eg through the liturgy, sacraments, spiritual reading, preaching, revelation, good example, etc)

Internal Grace

Grace intrinsic to the soul, operating physically on it

sacramental grace

sanctifying grace plus a grace specific to each sacrament that helps the person achieve the particular purpose of the sacrament