How Catholics Understand Grace

Catholic Update: How Catholics Understand Grace

The author explores the age-old debate about grace’s role in salvation in light of the historic agreement between the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation signed on the eve of the Jubilee in 2000. “What must I do to be holy? If I do everything right, will I be assured of redemption? Can I earn salvation? The question of holiness and God’s grace—God’s powerful force of love within us, implanted by God and sustained by God—is as old as Adam and Eve and is the root of a 600-year-old debate between Catholics and Lutherans,” Feister writes. Read about the history of Christian understanding of grace’s role in salvation as well as a contemporary view of grace. Updated in 2018.