Simul What? Toward a Grace for the Fearful
The doctrines of forensic justification and simul iustus et peccator assume a primarily moral theo-cosmology. However, the former constricts the excessiveness of divine grace, while the latter fails to adequately capture the fullness of the human condition. Freeing divine grace and theological anthr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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Dialog
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-52 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology NBM Doctrine of Justification ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Fear
B Grace B Compassion B Justification B Vulnerability |
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| Summary: | The doctrines of forensic justification and simul iustus et peccator assume a primarily moral theo-cosmology. However, the former constricts the excessiveness of divine grace, while the latter fails to adequately capture the fullness of the human condition. Freeing divine grace and theological anthropology from the moral requires a shift in emphasis toward suffering and an acknowledgment that a deep root of sin is creaturely vulnerability. In this case, the incurved self might symbolize the fearful, pulling goods toward the self for protection. While accountability for sin remains important, the first response to the fearful, who act from a sense of deep vulnerability, is compassion rather than judgment. In this way grace attends to but ultimately exceeds the moral. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12295 |