
The Grammar of Grace
Readings from the Christian Tradition
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 11. June 2019
556 pages
978-1-5326-7089-3 (ISBN)
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This anthology is a collection of readings on the Christian life. They were carefully selected from every era of history and from across the spectrum of Christian traditions. They include letters, sermons, treatises and disputations, poems, songs and hymns, confessions, biblical commentary, and even part of a novel. In each case, the subject is life with God, life in God, life for God--life infused and enlivened by God's grace.
The editors introduce each selection, highlighting relevant aspects of the author's biography, spirituality, and historical context. Introductions are also provided for the major eras of the church which present theological, historical, and cultural perspectives to help the reader best engage the selections.
For individuals and groups, classrooms and seminars, this collection will generate dialogue between past and present, and between traditions familiar and unfamiliar. It is not merely a book on the Christian life but for the Christian life, making yesterday's witness to life with God a resource for the Church today.
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English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-7089-3 (9781532670893)
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Kent Eilers is Professor of Theology at Huntington University (USA). He has authored and edited several books, including Theology as Retrieval, with W. David Buschart (2015) and Sanctified by Grace, with Kyle Strobel (2014).
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Ashley Cocksworth is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Practice at the University of Roehampton (UK). He is the author of Karl Barth on Prayer (2015) and Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (2018).
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Anna Silvas is adjunct research fellow at the University of New England (Australia). She is the editor and translator of Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers: Syriac Text and English Translation (2014) and The Rule of St. Basil in Latin and English: A Revised Critical Edition (2013).
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Ashley Cocksworth is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Practice at the University of Roehampton (UK). He is the author of Karl Barth on Prayer (2015) and Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (2018).
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Anna Silvas is adjunct research fellow at the University of New England (Australia). She is the editor and translator of Basil of Caesarea. Questions of the Brothers: Syriac Text and English Translation (2014) and The Rule of St. Basil in Latin and English: A Revised Critical Edition (2013).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- List of Illustrations
- Permissions
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1. St. Clement of Rome (d. ca. 99) | First Letter of Clement
- 2. Shepherd of Hermas (1st or 2nd Century)
- 3. The Letter to Diognetus (late 2nd century)
- 4. St. Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 35-ca. 107) | Letter to the Romans
- 5. St. Polycarp (69-155) | Letter to the Philippians & Martyrdom
- 6. St. Irenaeus of Lyons (d. ca. 202) | Against Heresies
- 7. St. Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-ca. 215) | Christ the Educator
- 8. Origen (ca. 184-253) | Commentary on Romans & On First Principles
- 9. St. Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373) | On the Incarnation
- 10. St. Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373) | Hymns on Faith: 14
- 11. St. Cyril of Jerusalem (313-386) | Catechetical Lecture 21
- 12. The Desert Fathers and Mothers | Sayings and Lives
- 12. The Desert Fathers and Mothers | Sayings and Lives
- 14. St. Basil of Caesarea (ca. 329-378)
- 15. St. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394) | The Great Catechism
- 16. St. John Chrysostom (349-407) | Homily on Hebrews 7
- 17. St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) | Confessions
- 18. St. Jerome (374-420) | Letter 52: To Nepotian
- 19. St. Cyril of Alexandria (376-444) | Commentary
- 20. St. Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480-547) | Rule
- 21. St. Gregory the Great (540-604) | Book of Pastoral Rule
- Introduction: Late Patristic-Medieval, Eastern
- 22. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (520s) | Mystical Theology
- 23. St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662) | The Ascetic Life
- 24. St. John of Damascus (676-749) | On the Orthodox Faith
- 25. Kassia the Melodist (c. 810-c. 865)
- 26. St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)
- 27. Gregory of Sinai (c. 1265-1346)
- 28. St. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359)
- 29. St. Nicholas Kabasilas (1323-1392)
- Introduction: Medieval, Western | Mystical and Monastic
- 30. Venerable Bede (c. 672-735) | Ecclesiastical History
- 31. Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141) | In Praise of the Bridegroom
- 32. William of St. Thierry (c. 1075-1148) | Meditative Orations
- 33. St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) | Homilies on the Song of Songs
- 34. St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
- 35. St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) | Fioretti
- 36. St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) | The Journey of the Mind into God
- 37. Johannes "Meister" Eckhart (c. 1260-1327/8) | Treatise on the Birth of the Eternal Word, Homily on the Birth of Jesus, & Treatise on Detachment
- 38. St. Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416) | The Revelations of Divine Love
- 39. The Cloud of Unknowing (late 14th century)
- 40. Thomas à Kempis (ca. 1380-1471) | The Imitation of Christ
- Introduction: Medieval, Western | Scholastic
- 41. St. Anselm of Canterbury (ca. 1033-1109) | Proslogion
- 42. Peter Abelard (1079-1142) | Pentecost Hymn
- 43. Peter Lombard (c. 1100-1160) | Four Books of Sentences
- 44. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- 45. Blessed John Duns Scotus (ca. 1265-1308) | Ordinatio
- 46. St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) | The Dialogue
- Introduction
- 47. Martin Luther (1483-1546) | The Freedom of a Christian
- 48. Augsburg Confession (1530) & The Formula of Concord (1578)
- 49. Johann Arndt (1555-1621) | True Christianity
- 50. Argula von Grumbach (1492-1554/7)
- 51. John Calvin (1509-1564)
- 52. Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)
- 53. John Owen (1616-1683) | Communion with God
- 54. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- 55. Balthasar Hubmaier (c. 1480-1528)
- 56. Menno Simons (1496-1561)
- 57. Anna Jansz (ca. 1509-1539) | Martyr's Song
- 58. Pilgram Marpeck (d. 1556) | Five Fruits of Repentance
- 59. Juan de Valdes (1509-1541) | The Christian Alphabet
- 60. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) | The Book of Her Life
- 61. St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) | En una noche oscura, The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Sayings of Light and Love, & Prayer of a Soul Taken with Love
- 62. St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) | Introduction to the Devout Life
- 63. Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) | Collect for the First Sunday of Lent
- 64. Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) | The Holy Spirit
- 65. George Herbert (1593-1633)
- 65. George Herbert (1593-1633) & John Wesley (1703-1791)
- Introduction
- 67. Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)
- 68. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) | Discipleship & Life Together
- 69. Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) | Systematic Theology, Vol. 3
- 70. Tuomo Mannermaa (1937-2015)
- 71. Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) | The Christian Faith
- 72. Karl Barth (1886-1968) | The Christian Life
- 73. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) | The Nature and Destiny of Man
- 74. Marilynne Robinson (1943-) | Gilead
- 75. Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) | The Mystery of the Supernatural
- 76. Adrienne von Speyr (1902-1967) | The Victory of Love
- 77. Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-) | The Power of the Poor in History
- 78. Janet Soskice (1957-) | Trinity and "the Feminine Other"
- 79. Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944 ) | The Comforter
- 80. Vladimir Lossky (1903-1958)
- 81. John Zizioulas (1931-) | Being as Communion
- 82. James McClendon (1924-2000)
- 83. John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) | Body Politics
- 84. Thomas Finger (1947-) | A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology
- 85. Michael Ramsey (1904-1988) | The Glory of God
- 86. Sarah Coakley (1951-) | "Deepening 'Practices'"
- 87. John Milbank (1952-) | Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon
- 88. Kathryn Tanner (1957-) | The Economy of Grace
- 89. J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) | Christianity and Culture
- 90. John Stott (1921-2011) | Basic Christianity
- 91. J. I. Packer (1926-) | Rediscovering Holiness
- 92. Donald Bloesch (1928-2010) | The Crisis of Piety
- 93. Anne Carr (1934-2008) | Transforming Grace
- 94. Delores S. Williams (1929-) | Sisters in the Wilderness
- 95. François Kabasélé (1947-) | Christ as Ancestor and Elder Brother
- 96. Andrew Sung Park (1951-) | The Wounded Heart of God
- Bibliography
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