Even in my mid-Teens, I understood grace including nature, not excluding it; otherwise, he’s suggesting total depravity for humans as a possibility. This willful inattentive behavior by Br Rooney to somehow confuse this “nature within grace” concept as pantheism surprises me, and makes me question if he’s really being honest, or like Mcclymond, is desperately and self-beguilingly trying to refute a dogma that they have prejudice against. It’s very clear that God endowed His moral (fundamental) grace to all human volition, rather than this absurd idea that all humans are totally depraved until Christ supposedly empowers them. Christ came to confer “grace upon grace”, not its sudden emergence within humans after their birth. Nature within grace makes me think of soft panentheism (not pantheism), which even Paul suggested, “And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else…’For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’.” (Acts 17.25, 28).