I just ran across an Eastern Orthodox professor who is arguing that the big difference between East & West is that the Western scholastics teach that grace is a *created* substance. I don’t recall ever seeing an argument like that in the Summa. Quite the contrary. As I understand it, we Romans uphold the notion of “salvation by divinization” to use the Orthodox phrase. In other words, we believe that the presence of sanctifying grace in the soul bestows the very nature of God on the recipient of grace. That, in fact, is what makes us members of God’s family. We have a bit of the “uncreated” dwelling within.

Could this Orthodox professor be taking some remark of Aquinas’ about grace out of context?