New Issue of New Blackfriars

New Blackfriars has just released its May 2020 issue (volume 101, issue 1093), which contains two articles that may be of interest to the readers of Thomistica. First, there is Shawn Colberg’s article, “‘Lord Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner’: Aquinas on Grace, Impetration, and Justfication," which analyzes Aquinas’s understanding of the ways in which divine grace moves a person toward justification. It pays particular attention to the language of “impetration,” which shows up in Aquinas’s treatment of prayer in the Secunda secundae, and uses this to examine the ways in which the not-yet-justified person does and does not contribute to his own justification. Second, there is Stephen J. Pope’s “Christocentric Exemplarism and the Imitation of Jesus.” This article is a contribution to an ongoing discussion within Thomistic virtue ethics related to exemplarism. Pope argues that those who wish to develop a Christocentric virtue ethics would do well to “give more prominence to the imitation of Jesus.”