Inner grace: Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul

Cary traces the development of Augustine's epochal doctrine of grace, arguing that it does not represent a rejection of Platonism in favor of a more purely Christian point of view null a turning from Plato to Paul, as it is often portrayed. Instead, Augustine reads Paul and other Biblical texts...

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1. Verfasser: Cary, Phillip 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:Cary traces the development of Augustine's epochal doctrine of grace, arguing that it does not represent a rejection of Platonism in favor of a more purely Christian point of view null a turning from Plato to Paul, as it is often portrayed. Instead, Augustine reads Paul and other Biblical texts in light of his Christian Platonist inwardness, producing a new concept of grace as an essentially inward gift. --from publisher description
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) 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 -- Divine good will -- The inward-turning will -- Willing becomes difficult -- Four 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
Beschreibung:XVI, 189 S. 25 cm
ISBN:9780195336481

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