If I understand Scholastic realism correctly it leaves reason unaffected by the fall. Aquinas taught that reason was something added to Adam even before the fall. In this sense then reason as an abstract power is something alongside God himself. It almost makes God a quadrinity(?).
If this analysis is correct, if man is affected by the Fall only in his will and emotions, it affects theology differently than if it affected his reason, will, and emotions.
So if grace interacts with just will and emotion versus reason, will, and emotions our understanding of how grace works will differ between these two anthropologies.
So in the Romanist schema can we say that Mary’s reason was exemplar and an example of the highest form of reason?
You just stomped across the limits of my meagre knowledge. I don’t even feel comfortable winging it. I hope some feelthy papist smarter ‘n me is watching this. I’d love to see how the discussion goes.
If the hotshot Thomists are at Mass this PM, I’ll ask them too.