âLet It Beâ
Predestination, Salvation, and Divine/Human Agency
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In critical conversation with the thought of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic scholars, this article proposes a provisional rethinking of the doctrines of predestination and providence, as well as the relation of divine to human agency, in ways that deviate from the classic Western, Augustinian categories and trajectories, emphasizing instead Maryâs faithful response to the divine initiative as paradigm for thinking how it is that God (inter)acts with creatures in their freedom.
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âTelford Work, âAnnunciation as Electionâ, Scottish Journal of Theology 54.3 (2001), pp. 285â307 (288).
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âMatthew D, Levering, Predestination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 197.
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âSteve Wright, âThe Creator Sings: A Wesleyan Rethinking of Transcendence with Robert Jensonâ, Heythrop Journal (2012), p. 79.
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âRobert W. Jenson, God after God: The God of the Past and the God of the Future, Seen in the Work of Karl Barth (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), p. 171.
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âJenson, God after God, p. 171. Herbert McCabe (Love, Law, and Language [London: Continuum, 2003], p. 153) makes a similar point: âSin consists in ceasing to reach out, refusing to respond to the Fatherâs summons, and settling for this present world. What makes it possible for us to reach out, to hear and respond to the summons, is that through the resurrection of Christ the future world is already with us as a disruptive force disturbing the order of the world. We are able to some extent to live into the mode of communication that belongs to the future world, the mode we call charity or the presence of the Spirit.â
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âHart, âProvidence and Causalityâ, p. 36. Hart is slightly less critical of Molina: âMolina was perhaps the more amiable figure ⦠insofar as he hoped to preserve some sense of the innocence of God; but that was an impossible ambition given the narrowly mechanistic concepts available in his timeâ.
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âLet It Beâ
Predestination, Salvation, and Divine/Human Agency
In: Journal of Pentecostal TheologySearch for other papers by Chris E.W. Green in
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In critical conversation with the thought of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic scholars, this article proposes a provisional rethinking of the doctrines of predestination and providence, as well as the relation of divine to human agency, in ways that deviate from the classic Western, Augustinian categories and trajectories, emphasizing instead Maryâs faithful response to the divine initiative as paradigm for thinking how it is that God (inter)acts with creatures in their freedom.
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