Faith, Grace, and Freedom

Explorations in Early Christianity and Early Modern Theology and Philosophy

AvOttó Pecsuk,Miklós Vassányi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book explores how Augustine and other important Church Fathers of Western and Eastern Christianity perceived the relationship between human freedom of choice and divine grace. It brings together a diversity of perspectives with contributions by experts of Patristic and Reformation theology. Several chapters focus on lesser-studied corpuses while others offer insights into less-known aspects of more familiar figures, each considering what faith, grace, and freedom might mean to early, and early modern, Christians. The volume reflects the complexity of the issue on the one hand, while on the other, it identifies a number of shared patterns that run through the history of philosophy and theology from late antiquity through the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the Reformation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-18
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041145554

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Ottó Pecsuk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.Miklós Vassányi is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of General Humanities at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

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Preface by the editors I. Augustine: Source and Synthesis 1. Intellect and Will in the Light of Divine Grace: Augustine on the Way to Beata Vita 2. The Development of Augustine’s Concept of Faith, and the Augustinian Conception of the Development of Faith 3. Re-entangling Augustine: Augustine and Calvin on the Divine Image 4. Grace and Human Thinking: The Ability to Think (2 Cor. 3:5) from Augustine to Jansenius II. The Founding Fathers on Faith and Freedom 5. “Freely I have Received thy Grace” (Odes of Solomon 5,3a). Christian Authors between Justin Martyr and Origen on Human Freedom 6. The Theological Correlation Between Grace and Faith 7. Faith and Grace in Novatian 8. Abraham as the Model of Faith in Ambrosiaster 9. Chrysostom’s Teaching on Grace 10. Faith in Some Early Syriac Fathers (’Aphrahaṭ, ’Ephrem, Theodore of Mopsuestia in Syriac Translation and Philoxenus of Mabbug) – as a Context for Denys the Areopagite 11. Human Nature’s Capacity for Grace: Obediential Potency in the Thought of St. Maximos the Confessor III. Renaissance Renewers, Rebels and Renegades 12. Self-Redeeming Platonism: Faith and Christology in Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, and Tommaso Campanella 13. Faith and Grace in the Third Book of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia 14. The Grace of Marriage according to Irenaeus and Erasmus IV. Reformed Fathers Reaching Back 15. The Psychology of Faith: Lutherans and Augustinians 16. Calvin in Conversation with Origen: Reference to Origen on Grace in John Calvin’s Institutes (1559–1560) 17. Church Fathers as Proto-Lutherans: Martin Chemnitz’s Case for the Patristic Basis of Lutheran Soteriology Index