"While We Were Yet Enemies": Some Particularly Protestant Reflections on Grace
A distinctive contribution of Protestant dogmatics is its account of the interrelation of divine grace and human sin in which saving grace comes upon fallen, sinful humanity. What is most evangelically interesting and significant to Reformed faith is that God graciously acts precisely for creatures...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 35-51 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
depravity
B Grace B Sin B Justification B Redemption B Didache |
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| Summary: | A distinctive contribution of Protestant dogmatics is its account of the interrelation of divine grace and human sin in which saving grace comes upon fallen, sinful humanity. What is most evangelically interesting and significant to Reformed faith is that God graciously acts precisely for creatures who are turned away from and pitched against divine goodness, against divine vocation, and against divine love. Thus, to ask and answer the question of nature and grace' as such is not yet to have set the question of grace in its most significant and telling register. In conversation with insights from the Didache, the apostle Paul, and early modern Reformed doctrines of sin, this essay argues that we do not win the measure of divine grace unless and until we meet it in connection with our godlessness and enmity, that is, in God's saving confrontation with radical human sinfulness. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10003 |