A Certain Rectitude of Order: Jesus and Justification According to Aquinas

In this article I wish to explore the Christological and soteriological significance of Aquinas's understanding of justice as "a certain rectitude of order in the interior disposition of a human being." Firstly, I intend to examine his treatment of original justice and original sin, especially in so far as these denote a relation to "ordinateness." Secondly, in the light of the close connection between the questions of law and justification in Pauline theology, I intend to explain why it is for Aquinas that the

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