Like the collectivization which accompanies it, this upsurge of human faith which we are witnessing is a life - bearing phenomenon, and therefore irresistible. (religion-online.org)
However much Stanglin and McCall want to protest that for Arminius it is grace that is necessary for human faith, he nonetheless left an irreducible space for human acts or beliefs that resist God's grace. (firstthings.com)
For Niebuhr, this is the problem of the transformation of our ordinary human faiths, and he addresses it by pointing to the pattern of Jesus Christ in our history. (religion-online.org)