عنوان

Inner grace :

019804433X

1435633792

9780198044338

9781435633797

0195336488

9780195336481

b772083

Inner grace :

[Book]

Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul /

Phillip Cary.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2008.

1 online resource (1 volume)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Platonist grace : inner help to love -- Wisdom and virtue -- Conversion and purification -- Beauty and love -- Free will against autonomy -- From fear to love -- Against Augustine on the Jews -- Dialogue with Plato -- The widening scope of inner help -- Connections of love -- Pauline grace : human will and divine choice -- Good will before Paul -- Willing becomes difficult -- Stages -- The place of merit -- Early inconsistency -- Jacob and Esau -- The call to faith -- Assent or delight? -- No external cause of grace -- Reading Paul's admonition -- Anti-pelagian grace : clarifying prevenience -- The shape of the controversy -- The grace of participation -- Uncovering pelagian evasions -- Augustine's evasiveness -- The missing piece of the puzzle -- Taught by God -- Predestined grace : conversion and election -- The grace of beginnings -- Converting Paul's will -- Coercion on the Damascus Road -- The experience of grace in disarray -- God turns hearts -- Problems of perseverance -- Biblical election.

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Most theologians want to paint the development of Augustine's doctrine of grace as a turn away from Platonist philosophy to something more distinctively Christian, but Phillip Cary argues that it is a synthesis of the two, a development within Augustine's Christian Platonism.

Inner grace.

0195336488

Augustine,354-430.

Augustine,354-430

Bible., Epistles of Paul-- Theology.

Bible., Epistles of Paul.

Grace (Theology)

Grace (Theology)

RELIGION-- Christian Theology-- Systematic.

RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.

Theology.

REL-- 067110

REL-- 070000

Cary, Phillip,1958-

20201206175342.0

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[Book]

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