Inner grace : Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul
Inner grace : Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul
- 자료유형
- 단행본 서양서
- 최종처리일시
- 20100108163845
- ISBN
- 9780195336481 (alk. paper) : $55
- ISBN
- 0195336488 (alk. paper)
- DDC
- 230.14092-22
- 청구기호
- 230.14092 A923ci
- 저자명
- Cary, Phillip , 1958-
- 서명/저자
- Inner grace : Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul Phillip Cary
- 발행사항
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
- 형태사항
- xvi, 189 p ; 25 cm
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index.
- 내용주기
- 완전내용Platonist grace : inner help to love -- Wisdom and virtue -- Conversion and purification -- Beauty and love -- Free will against autonomy -- From fear to love -- Against Augustine on the Jews -- Dialogue with Plato -- The widening scope of inner help -- Connections of love -- Pauline grace : human will and divine choice -- Divine good will -- The inward-turning will -- Willing becomes difficult -- Four stages -- The place of merit -- Early inconsistency -- Jacob and Esau -- The call to faith -- Assent or delight? -- No external cause of grace -- Reading Paul's admonition -- Anti-pelagian grace : clarifying prevenience -- The shape of the controversy -- The grace of participation -- Uncovering pelagian evasions -- Augustine's evasiveness -- The missing piece of the puzzle -- Taught by God -- Predestined grace : conversion and election -- The grace of beginnings -- Converting Paul's will -- Coercion on the Damascus Road -- The experience of grace in disarray -- God turns hearts -- Problems of perseverance -- Biblical election.
- 주제명-개인
- Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo
- 주제명-통일서명
- Bible N.T Epistles of Paul Theology.
- 일반주제명
- Grace (Theology)
- 책소개
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This book is, along with Outward Signs (OUP 2008), a sequel to Phillip Carys Augustine and the Invention of the Inner Self (OUP 2000). In this work, Cary traces the development of Augustines epochal doctrine of grace, arguing that it does not represent a rejection of Platonism in favor of a more purely Christian point of view a turning from Plato to Paul, as it is often portrayed. Instead, Augustine reads Paul and other Biblical texts in light of his Christian Platonist inwardness, producing a new concept of grace as an essentially inward gift. For Augustine, grace is needed first of all to heal the mind so it may see God, but then also to help the will turn away from lower goods to love God as its eternal Good. Eventually, over the course of Augustines career, the scope of the souls need for grace expands outward to include not only the inner vision of the intellect and the power of love but even the initial gift of faith. At every stage, Augustine insists that divine grace does not compromise or coerce the human will but frees, heals, and helps it, precisely because grace is not an external force but an inner gift of delight leading to true happiness. As his polemic against the Pelagians develops, however, he does attribute more to grace and less to the power of free will. In the end, it is Gods choice which makes the ultimate difference between the saved and the damned, and we cannot know why he chooses to save one person and not another. From this Augustinian doctrine of divine choice or election stem the characteristic pastoral problems of predestination, especially in Protestantism. A more external, indeed Jewish, doctrine of election would be more Biblical, Cary suggests, and would result in a less anxious experience of grace. Along with its companion work, Outward Signs, this careful and insightful book breaks new ground in the study of Augustines theology of grace and sacraments.
