Ex Nihilo or Tabula Rasa? God's Grace between Freedom and Fidelity
John Barclay's magnum opus on grace genuinely moves the discussion forward by describing grace as unconditioned but not unconditional. This essay explores the notion of unconditioned grace as the gift given regardless of worth, disregarding any social and symbolic capital in the process. Taking...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-46 |
| Review of: | Paul and the gift (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017) (Bertschmann, D. H.)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible NBC Doctrine of God NBK Soteriology |
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| Summary: | John Barclay's magnum opus on grace genuinely moves the discussion forward by describing grace as unconditioned but not unconditional. This essay explores the notion of unconditioned grace as the gift given regardless of worth, disregarding any social and symbolic capital in the process. Taking Romans 9-11 as its case study, this essay argues that the deepest root of Paul's confidence is God's fidelity to the people God loved and chose, not God's repeated movements of creative incongruous grace. Paul knows that in Israel's case its symbolic capital is also spiritual in pointing towards Israel's history with God. Far from disregarding this capital and its ethnic component, Paul professes God's abiding faithfulness to the biological descendants of the patriarchs (Rom. 11:28). In his wrestling to hold God's astonishing freedom and enduring fidelity together Paul sketches out his gospel of radical sin and grace, where both Jews and Gentiles are equally failing (Rom. 11:32) but met and restored precisely at the point of death and destruction. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Paul and Grace in Theological Perspective (2020)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12397 |