“The terminology of men ‘earning salvation’ is false if by it we mean Pelagianism or works-salvation. It is true in terms of cooperative merit. God gives us the grace to participate and work together with Him. Merit is God crowning His own gifts, as St. Augustine famously stated. He wants us to participate in the thing, but it is all by grace and never without it.” (Page 12)
“Man’s free will to do good is ‘moved and excited by God’: at which time man can then cooperate, in this grace:” (Page 8)
“The person with grace then has the power to cooperate with grace by working together with God, including for salvation (see chapter 8). Everything is caused by this grace; without it we could do no good thing. Catholics and Protestants agree on that. Disagreements arise in the area of how we cooperate with God and how we classify things.” (Page 7)
“The Catholic position is that grace is the ultimate cause of our free will decisions and good works, in cooperation with that grace, whereas Calvinism / monergism rejects free will altogether (the whole gist of the Luther-Erasmus debate) and all good works before regeneration (i.e., total depravity).” (Page 20)
“Grace comes first, causing conversion. Man is ‘moved by grace.’ At that point it is monergistic:” (Page 9)