Origen and the Doctrine of Grace
Author: Benjamin Drewery
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1606086421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Benjamin Drewery
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1606086421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Montgomery Boice
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1433517353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is no question that we live in an age of weak theology and casual Christianity. We have substituted intuition for truth, feeling for belief and immediate gratification for enduring hope. Evangelicalism desperately needs to return to the doctrines that once before reformed the world: radical depravity, unconditional election, particular redemption, efficacious grace and persevering grace. James Boice and Philip Ryken not only provide a compelling exposition on these doctrines of grace, but also look briefly at their historical impact. The authors leave no doubt that the church suffers when these foundational truths are neglected and that she must return to a Christianity that is practical-minded, kind-hearted, and most importantly, biblically based.
Author: Origen
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Published: 2013-12-09
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0870612808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Origen’s On First Principles is a foundational work in the development of Christian thought and doctrine: it is the first attempt in history at a systematic Christian theology. For over a decade it has been out of print with only expensive used copies available; now it is available at an affordable price and in a more accessible format. On First Principles is the most important surviving text written by third-century Church father, Origen. Origen wrote in a time when fundamental doctrines had not yet been fully articulated by the Church, and contributed to the very formation of Christianity. Readers see Origen grappling with the mysteries of salvation and brainstorming how they can be understood. This edition presents G. W. Butterworth’s trusted translation in a new, more readable format, retains the introduction by Henri de Lubac, and includes a new foreword by John C. Cavadini. As St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Doctor of the Church, wrote: “Origen is the stone on which all of us were sharpened.”
Author: Thomas P. Scheck
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0268093024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Standard accounts of the history of interpretation of Paul’s Letter to the Romans often begin with St. Augustine. As Thomas P. Scheck demonstrates, however, the Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans by Origen of Alexandria (185-254 CE) was a major work of Pauline exegesis which, by means of the Latin translation preserved in the West, had a significant influence on the Christian exegetical tradition. Scheck begins by exploring Origen’s views on justification and on the intimate connection of faith and post-baptismal good works as essential to justification. He traces the enormous influence Origen’s Commentary on Romans had on later theologians in the Latin West, including the ways in which theologians often appropriated Origen’s exegesis in their own work. Scheck analyzes in particular the reception of Origen by Pelagius, Augustine, William of St. Thierry, Erasmus, Cornelius Jansen, the Anglican Bishop Richard Montagu, and the Catholic lay apologist John Heigham, as well as Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, and other Protestant Reformers who harshly attacked Origen’s interpretation as fatally flawed. But as Scheck shows, theologians through the post-Reformation controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries studied and engaged Origen extensively, even if not always in agreement. An important work in patristics, biblical interpretation, and historical theology, Origen and the History of Justification establishes the formative role played by Origen’s Pauline exegesis, while also contributing to our understanding of the theological issues surrounding justification in the western Christian tradition.
Author: John A. Hardon
Publisher: St. Francis of Assisi Books
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780970610614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger Haight
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780809122004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new approach to the idea of grace. The author isolates certain common themes consistently present in the traditional language of grace and reinterprets them in terms of the concept of liberation.