Grace
The Free, Unconditional and Limitless Love of God
1st Edition
Published on 3. January 2013
192 pages
978-1-84825-438-1 (ISBN)
Description
Grace - the free, unconditional and limitless love of God - is one of the epic words of the Christian faith and a key part of what is most distinctive about it. It lies at the heart of what is proclaimed in the Gospel, but is not well understood, even by Christians. For centuries, Christians have laboured under two opposing misunderstandings: the Catholic view: We must strive to be good in order to deserve God's love,or the Protestant view: Humankind is so sinful, we can do no good at all. To set a great imbalance right, this volume explores what grace is; how it flows from an understanding of the Trinity; how it becomes visible in the life of Christ; grace in creation, human freedom and the Church; ways of thinking about grace and living the life of grace.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- What is grace?
- Initiative and invitation
- Grace and the God of the Bible
- Proclaiming the God of life
- Scriptural words for grace
- Stories and scandals
- The shape of the cross
- Grace and the Christian doctrineofGod
- The self-emptying of God
- Love without self
- Practical theology
- Grace and fellowship with the divine
- Grace in poetic conversation
- Being alive
- Christ, grace and justification
- Life in Christ
- Grace against the law?
- Creation, covenant and Christ
- The cross of the Son of God
- The offering of perfect life
- Describing grace and salvation
- Grace and human being(s)
- See how these Christians love one another
- Loyalty to scripture
- Who or what is free?
- The necessity of grace
- Sin (originally)
- Creation, grace and human freedom
- God the creator
- Grace and divine action
- Reforming an old debate
- The merits of salvation
- Creation, providence, election
- Ways of thinking about grace
- Thomas Aquinas
- Organizing the language of grace
- Another medieval theologian
- Grace as Christian experience
- A history of hydraulics
- Grace and discipleship
- Operating and co-operating
- Feeling new strength
- Grace and the image of God in human beings
- A new creation
- Grace and nature
- Grace and infinity
- Anonymous and explicit faith
- The crucified God
- The cruciform image of God
- All at once what Christ is
- Grace and the sacramental life
- Grace poured out
- Life on board the ark
- The identity of the Christian life
- Ordering grace
- Offering everything
- The penultimate supper
- Select bibliography
