Derek Rishmawy, James Wood, and Joseph Minich trace the nature-grace debate from de Lubac's challenge to neoscholastic "pure nature" through Blondel, Bavinck, and Betz's Christ the Logos of Creation — asking what's actually at stake: the gratuity of grace, the coherence of theological anthropology, and the twin dangers of secular dualism and pantheist collapse.

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Chapters

00:00 - Introduction: Why Nature and Grace?
02:30 - The Debate in Context: Neo-Calvinism, Catholic-Protestant Dialogue, and David Bentley Hart
05:00 - James on De Lubac: Challenging Pure Nature and Extrinsicism
08:30 - Blondel, Desire, and the Political Consequences of Separation
11:30 - Derek's Five-Year-Old Explanation: What Is Actually at Issue
13:30 - Joe: Natural Ends, Supernatural Ends, and the Beatific Vision
16:00 - Steel-Manning the Two-Tier View: Gratuity of Grace
18:30 - Bavinck, the Donum Superadditum, and Terminological Convergence
22:00 - The Neo-Calvinist Peril: Immanentizing the Eschaton
24:00 - Reception History: Did De Lubac Get Thomas Right?
27:00 - Betz, Chavarra, and Philosophy's Openness to Theology
31:00 - Participatory Metaphysics and Non-Competitive Freedom
33:30 - Derek's Worry: The Pantheist Ditch
36:00 - Horton's Trilogy and the Irenaean/Origenist Distinction
39:00 - The Two Ditches: Extrinsic Dualism vs. Pantheistic Monism
43:00 - Desire, Idolatry, and the Hook Into the Real
47:00 - Was the Incarnation Part of the Plan? Creation in Christ
50:00 - Closing Thoughts: Bavinck's Affirmations and Where to Go Next