Malcolm Cowley on Faulkner re: TRP

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/3/2012 12:11 PM, Bekah wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> 	And as for Grace, well I'm happy to see that we have revisited its types in RC and Calvinism etc, but is this not a more secular Grace? Is it not a correlate of the anarchy miracle and thus detached to some degree from its religious moorings? I agree with Mark that this line is very carefully weighted. Pynchon clearly states, in one of his letters in the Harry Ransom collection, that he is "big on last lines."
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> Yes,  lots of meanings for  the term "grace."   And I'm not accusing TP of having a  "religious" meaning in mind.   I think secular Grace is very similar to what the Catholic site describes as "Actual Grace"  - it's the supernatural type one.   This is not the kind that gets you to heaven or prepares your soul or whatever.  This is the kind that's just a little "kick in the pants."     It's not "irresistible" like the Calvinist.
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> My bad  -  I  put in the quotes and forgot the links:
> Actual Grace is  "a supernatural push or encouragement.  It's transient.  It … acts on the soul from the outside, so to speak.  It's a supernatural kick in the pants.  It gets the will and the intellect moving so we can seek out and keep sanctifying grace."
> http://www.catholic.com/tracts/grace-what-it-is-and-what-it-does
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenient_grace
> "… prevenient grace allows persons to engage their God-given free will to choose the salvation offered by God in Jesus Christ or to reject that salvific offer."
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> There are lots (!) of sites with little definitions.
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> Bekah
> whose g'daughter is named Grace -

How does one define Hemingway's kind of Grace---Courage is grace under fire.


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