Sentences with phrase «doctrines of grace»

He said that the «Christian doctrine of grace stands in juxtaposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin and has meaning only if the latter is an accurate description of the actual facts of human experience.

Puritanism's doctrine of grace supported the highly developed individualism that gave credence to the representation of early American society as a voluntary community of the consenting elect.

But nonetheless the other kind of faith always has been, and is still, tragically common, and James may well be condemning, not Paul, but those who either in ignorance misunderstood, or by design misinterpreted, the Pauline doctrines of grace and faith.

Another large book, Liberating Grace (Orbis, 1979), appeared in 1976, exploring many facets of the traditional doctrine of grace in both social and individual terms.

Because of his extensive writing on the subject of sin, the erroneous impression has grown up that Niebuhr was exclusively interested in this one doctrine, that it made him a pessimist, and that he neglected the Christian doctrine of grace.

I have no allegiance to John Calvin, one positive contribution he did make was expounding upon what is known as the doctrines of grace, i.e. the 5 points of Calvinism.

The doctrine of grace, Torrance noted, is directly related to two of the primary divine attributes, God's holiness and his love.

Anyway, yes, Roger, if one believes in the doctrine of Grace, Hess is in Heaven right now, and the Jews who he helped kill but never accepted Jesus as their savior, they are all in Hell right now, for all eternity.

Then there the books like The Doctrines of Grace by Boice, Ryken, and Sproul which uses this exact tactic when «defending» the 5 points of Calvinism.

That does not change the central point regarding the Doctrine of Grace.

What total depravity is meant to convey is the idea that sin has affected the whole person down to the very core or root of his or her being (Boice & Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 71).

With these developments Altizer is now allowed: (1) to affirm the uniqueness of Christianity; and (2) to develop a doctrine of grace.

They were also in part a matter of pastoral sensibility, with Leithart seeing the greatest pastoral danger in the scandal of disunity, Trueman in the relativization of the doctrines of grace and subsequent weakening of salvific assurance.

Nothing is more important for the future of Methodism than a recovery of Wesley's doctrine of grace and responsibility.

There is further correspondence in the doctrine of grace and Whitehead's theory of prehensions.

Let's see, I'll take christ on a cross, I'll leave the doctrine of grace — it's too chewy, and....

And I'm speaking from experience here: I am * profoundly * grateful for the people who confronted me and led me to the doctrines of grace.

Doctrine of grace, election (ok so my embedded Reformed theology sneaks out) are we called or chosen?

Calvinism, of course, has its own sectarian edges: it can degenerate into a graceless polemic about the doctrine of grace with little evidence of the reality of the thing argued about.

As a Reformed theologian, I sympathize with efforts to recover the Reformation roots of the Baptist heritage, including a strong theological commitment to the sovereignty of God and the doctrines of grace.

I am coming from the other side of the spectrumbrella from you — I was raised with an Armenian bent, and I feel that God opened my eyes to the beautiful truth of the doctrines of Grace.

Behind McCabe's interpretation of the atonement and universal moral freedom loomed the semi-Pelagian tendencies of his doctrine of grace.

Like a spiritual corpse, he is unable to make a single move toward God, think a right thought about God, or even respond to God — unless God first brings this spiritually dead corpse to life (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 74).

The doctrine of Grace, Heaven and Hell, represent the biggest bribe ever made, and the biggest threat ever made.

The doctrine of grace gives us grounds to hope that we may in fact keep the commandments fully if we call upon God for help and co-operate with his assistance by exercising modesty, by keeping custody of the eyes, by avoiding impure conversations and by using all the other means traditionally employed in support of chastity.

The doctrines of grace and the sufficiency of Christ are not necessarily contrary to the idea of sanctification and the need for purification from sin.

According to Romans 3, no one unaided by God 1) has any righteousness by which to lay a claim upon God, 2) has any true understanding of God, or 3) seeks God (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 79).

A smaller group of more sympathetic critics recognize that Niebuhr had a doctrine of grace, but they feel that it was less than adequate.

Niebuhr's doctrine of grace was as central and essential to his theology as his doctrine of sin or any other doctrine.

In general, then, his doctrine of grace has been denied, distorted, or neglected by his critics, both friendly and unfriendly.

To establish the relevance of the doctrine of grace as Power, Niebuhr applied it to the facts of human experience.

A third group says that Niebuhr's doctrine of grace is wholly eschatological and not immediately redemptive.

If Niebuhr's doctrine of sin is the best known but most misunderstood of his teachings, then his doctrine of grace is the least known and least appreciated of his teachings.

«1 (3) A third cause for skepticism about Niebuhr's doctrine of grace was the failure to read Niebuhr's occasional writings.

To be sure, Niebuhr set his doctrine of grace against a dark background of original sin.

He said it «is from the diagnosis of impotence that the doctrine of grace achieves its significance; for grace is the answer to the human problem.

In over a thousand occasional writings he applied his doctrine of grace to concrete issues, and here it can be seen that his theology did not result in moral paralysis.

But these Niebuhr sympathizers have contented themselves with mentioning his doctrine of grace without demonstrating it.

They generated two contrasting types of spirituality, and that «contrast may well be defined in terms of the «sanctification» and «justification» aspects of the Christian doctrine of grace,» he said.24 The Reformation was overbalanced by a defeatism and cultural obscurantism, and the Renaissance by an unwarranted optimism.

So despite the tendency of some to refer to Calvinism as «The Doctrines of Grace» or «Reformed Theology,» I reject both titles as misleading and inaccurate.

Sometimes it is called «The Doctrines of Grace» and other times it is referred to as «Reformed Theology.»

Anyway, you should know that if you hear people talking about «the Doctrines of Grace» or «Reformed Theology» they are probably referring to Calvinism.