Gratia non tollit naturam

Philip W. Rosemann's Gratia non tollit naturam examines how the Catholic tradition understands the relation of grace to nature, arguing that grace perfects rather than cancels nature.

Drawing on liturgical theology, philosophical history, and contemporary thinkers, Rosemann analyzes how modern structures of time and space challenge Christian life and how liturgical practices reconstitute believers as 'liturgical subjects.

' The book explores technologies of the self—like the Liturgy of the Hours—as means by which Christians learn God's language and reorder life around salvation history.

It engages figures from medieval scholastics to modern and postmodern philosophers to trace continuity and translation across traditions.

The work serves both as a critique of secular grids and a proposal for living and speaking liturgically in contemporary culture.