The Work of Faith

The Work of Faith
Author: Justin Nickel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978709641

Many scholars assume that Luther advocates for a Christian life in which human beings are always passive recipients of God’s grace as it is delivered in preaching, and mere instruments through which God works to serve their neighbors. The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching offers a different reading of Luther’s views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther’s preaching. Using Luther’s sermons in the Church Postil as a primary source, Justin Nickel argues that Martin Luther preached as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency in the lives they lead before God and neighbor. As a result, Nickel presents a Luther substantively concerned with how Christians lead their lives.

The Work of Faith

The Work of Faith
Author: Justin Michael Nickel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2018
Genre: Free will and determinism
ISBN:

Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment

Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment
Author: John M.G. Barclay
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567084538

Re-examines Paul within contemporary Jewish debate, attuned to the significant theological issues he raises without imposing upon him the frameworks developed in later Christian thought

Divine Agency and Divine Action

Divine Agency and Divine Action
Author: William James Abraham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198786514

This volume argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II
Author: William J. Abraham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192517767

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith. Volume II argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition. William J. Abraham argues that one must practice theology in order to analyze properly the concept of divine action. Abraham offers a careful review and evaluation of the particularities of divine action as they appear in the work of biblical, patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era theologians. Particular attention is given to the divine inspiration of scripture, creation, incarnation, transubstantiation in the Eucharist, predestination, and divine concurrence. The work does not simply repeat the doctrinal formulations found in the Christian tradition, but examines them in order to find fresh ways of thinking about these issues for our own time, especially with respect to the contemporary debates about divine agency and divine action.

Divine Agency and Divine Action: Actions, agents, agency, and explanation in Athanasius

Divine Agency and Divine Action: Actions, agents, agency, and explanation in Athanasius
Author: William James Abraham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017
Genre: Christianity
ISBN:

Volume 2: Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith. Volume II argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition. William J. Abraham argues that one must practice theology in order to analyze properly the concept of divine action. Abraham offers a careful review and evaluation of the particularities of divine action as they appear in the work of biblical, patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era theologians. Particular attention is given to the divine inspiration of scripture, creation, incarnation, transubstantiation in the Eucharist, predestination, and divine concurrence. The work does not simply repeat the doctrinal formulations found in the Christian tradition, but examines them in order to find fresh ways of thinking about these issues for our own time, especially with respect to the contemporary debates about divine agency and divine action. --

Divine Grace and Human Response

Divine Grace and Human Response
Author: Claetus Matthew Vadakkekara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1981
Genre: Christianity and other religions
ISBN:

Papers presented at a 1979 seminar at the Asirvanam Benedictine Monastery, Bangalore.