| 单词 | actual grace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasactual grace actual grace n. [after post-classical Latin gratia actualis (1616); compare French grâce actuelle (1658)] Theology a grace bestowed by God for the performance of good deeds (also as a mass noun); cf. habitual grace at habitual adj. 1(b). ΚΠ 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 166 These [dispositions] are better then common Gifts, yet not actuall Graces. 1767 A. Bedingfield Short Acct. Life Mary of Holy Cross 126 An Habit of praying..acquired by a Preparation of the Soul, holy Attention to God, and repeated fervent Acts of devout Prayer, with the Succour of actual Graces. 1890 J. Wilhelm & T. B. Scannell Man. Catholic Theol. I. iii. ii. i. 437 Around this [Habitual] Grace are grouped all other salutary Graces especially ‘Actual Grace’. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 577/1 Actual grace, a certain motion of the soul, bestowed by God ad hoc for the production of some good act. It may exist in the unbaptized. 2004 B. Ghezzi Sign of Cross 11 The divine intervention that gave him hope to endure the gulag was an actual grace. < as lemmas |
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