Man By Nature And By Grace

Author : St Augustine of Hippo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781078330923
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Nature and Grace written by St Augustine of Hippo and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract from Augustine's Retractions (Book II, Chapter 42): At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius', in which he defends, with all the argumentative skill he could muster, the nature of man, in opposition to the grace of God whereby the unrighteous is justified and we become Christians. The treatise which contains my reply to him, and in which I defend grace, not indeed as in opposition to nature, but as that which liberates and controls nature, I have entitled On Nature and Grace. In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman bishop and martyr, Xystus, were vindicated by myself as if they really were the words of this Sixtus. For this I thought them at the time; but I afterwards discovered, that Sextus the heathen philosopher, and not Xystus the Christian bishop, was their author. This treatise of mine begins with the words: 'The book which you sent me.'"

Author : Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606089498
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Grace written by Matthias Joseph Scheeben and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passing years, which bury so many once-famous names under deep layers of forgetfulness, are raising Matthias Joseph Scheeben to an eminence reached by very few scholars. Time is the judge of all achievements, and has pronounced its verdict that Scheeben is the greatest theologian who has written in the German language. The reason for his importance is not hard to find. Scheeben is the chief theologian of the supernatural economy of the world. The intellectual blight known as rationalism had spread widely in the nineteenth century and had made disastrous inroads even in Christian circles. Although preliminary battles waged by Catholics who were turning back the unholy invasion, Scheeben was the champion who finally and decisively drove the enemy out of theology. From the very outset of his theological career, Scheeben had cherished the ambition of making the drab naturalistic world glow again in the light and beauty of grace, of bringing back to the awareness of men the glorious truth that they are God's children. In the first of his major books, Nature and Grace, he describes the supernatural as a sharing in the nature of God. This same theme, the splendor of our supernatural life, is the leading idea of all his works. He thought that a deep appreciation of the mysteries revealed by God was so important that he consecrated the tireless powers of his genius to the task of bringing out their beauty and force, and of emphasizing their meaning for the daily life of man. He insisted that these mysteries are the richest treasure of our spiritual inheritance and that theology is the inspiration of the fullest lie open to use-supernatural life with Christ and in Christ. Scheeben's masterly theological synthesis is best proposed in The Mysteries of Christianity, his most original work, but was clearly formulated from the beginning of his literary activity in Nature and Grace, the book of his energetic youth.

Author : Edward Thomas (minister of the Gospel at Denham.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Estate of Man by Nature and Grace. Together with His Duty to God, His Neighbor, and Himself, Etc written by Edward Thomas (minister of the Gospel at Denham.) and published by . This book was released on 1674 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William King Tweedie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man by Nature and Grace; Or, Lessons from the Book of Jonah written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Dean Swafford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630873195
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Grace written by Andrew Dean Swafford and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom has it that thinking on nature and grace among Catholic intellectuals was severely clouded by the work of Cajetan and his fellow Thomistic commentators from about the sixteenth century to the eve of Vatican II. Henri de Lubac has rightly been given credit for pointing this out; and to all appearances, de Lubac's influence won the day, as can be seen by the imprint of his thought upon not just the Second Vatican Council, but also the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. However, in recent years, a new crop of Thomistic scholars has arisen who question whether de Lubac's word on nature and grace should be the last; hence, the debate over the nature-grace relation, so heated at mid-twentieth century, has been stirred once again. Dr. Swafford here offers a "third way" by way of the nineteenth-century German theologian Matthias J. Scheeben--who, for some reason, has never really been considered especially relevant to this debate. Swafford shows that Scheeben can capture the very best of both sides, while at the same time avoiding the characteristic pitfalls so often alleged against each.

Author : Clark H. Pinnock
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780310512318
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grace of God, the Will of Man written by Clark H. Pinnock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism" was written by an impressive team of evangelical scholars from many traditions. This work carries on the ancient debate about the scope of God's saving purposes and the manner of his effecting salvation in human beings. It defends the proposition that God is a dynamic personal Agent who respects the freedom he chose to delegate to his human creatures and relates sensitively to us in the outworking of his plans for the whole of history. God is love and expresses his power by working salvation among us under conditions of genuine mutuality. The contributors to this volume are Christian scholars who are eager to present this evangelical model as an alternative to deterministic theology. They do not claim to have said the last word on the subject but want at least to keep the ball of theological discussion in play.

Author : St. Augustine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643730493
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Nature and Grace written by St. Augustine and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius', in which he defends, with all the argumentative skill he could muster, the nature of man, in opposition to the grace of God whereby the unrighteous is justified and we become Christians. The treatise which contains my reply to him, and in which I defend grace, not indeed as in opposition to nature, but as that which liberates and controls nature, I have entitled On Nature and Grace. In this work sundry short passages, which were quoted by Pelagius as the words of the Roman bishop and martyr, Xystus, were vindicated by myself as if they really were the words of this Sixtus. For this I thought them at the time; but I afterwards discovered, that Sextus the heathen philosopher, and not Xystus the Christian bishop, was their author. This treatise of mine begins with the words: 'The book which you sent me.'"

Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606634
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine: A Very Short Introduction written by Henry Chadwick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought, discussing his reaction to the thinkers before him, and themes such as freedom, creation, and the trinity. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Henry Scougal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of God in the Soul of Man written by Henry Scougal and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William King Tweedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Man by Nature and by Grace written by William King Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: