The Mystery Of Predestination

Author : John Salza
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780895559715

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How can an all-loving God choose some people for eternal salvation while permitting others to fall away? Doesn't God offer the same amount of saving grace to everyone? Isn't predestination a Protestant doctrine? In The Mystery of Predestination , author and apologist John Salza, seeks to answer these questions, and others, about that most ineffable and confounding of Christian beliefs: that God chooses to infallibly direct certain people to salvation but not others. Drawing deeply upon Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Salza says that a proper Catholic understanding of the doctrine of predestination is interconnected with two other central mysteries: the ability of mankind to choose freely to accept or reject God's saving grace, and the inability of mankind to accept God's grace without first being moved by His grace from within. By holding these truths always before us we can see how God may predestine His elect to heaven but never desire that anyone go to hell. We can also achieve a new clarity and depth of insight into a profound Christian truth: God is the primary mover in salvation. It is He who chooses, seeks, and saves us. Meticulously researched and written in a scholarly yet accessible style, The Mystery of Predestination is perfect for the serious Catholic who is confused by Bible verses or Magisterial statements in favor of predestination (and never hears about it in Sunday sermons), or who wants to defend Catholic truth against Calvinist error, and is seeking clear, traditional, and Thomistic answers. Or, indeed, for any thoughtful Christian who wants to come to terms with what the Bible teaches about the fundamental truths of our salvation.

Author : John Salza
Publisher : Tan Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0895559056

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Mystery of Predestination by John Salza Pdf

In The Mystery of Predestination, apologist and best-selling author John Salza (Why Catholic Cannot Be Masons) draws on Scripture, Tradition, and St. Thomas Aquinas\' writings to uncover the fact that a proper Catholic understanding of predestination is interconnected with two other central mysteries: mankind\'s ability to choose freely to accept or reject God\'s saving Grace, and mankind\'s inability to accept that grace without first being moved by God from within.

Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Fig
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : 9781623146894

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On the Predestination of the Saints by Saint Augustine of Hippo Pdf

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191619120

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Predestination by Matthew Levering Pdf

Predestination has been the subject of perennial controversy among Christians, although in recent years theologians have shied away from it as a divisive and unedifying topic. In this book Matthew Levering argues that Christian theological reflection needs to continue to return to the topic of predestination, for two reasons: Firstly, predestinarian doctrine is taught in the New Testament. Reflecting the importance of the topic in many strands of Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament authors teach predestination in a manner that explains why Christian theologians continually recur to this topic. Secondly, the doctrine of predestination provides a way for Christian theologians to reflect upon two fundamental affirmations of biblical revelation. The first is God's love, without any deficiency or crimp, for each and every rational creature; the second is that God from eternity brings about the purpose for which he created us, and that he permits some rational creatures freely and permanently to rebel against his love. When theologians reflect on these two key biblical affirmations, they generally try to unite them in a logical synthesis. Instead, Levering argues, it is necessary to allow for the truth of each side of the mystery, without trying to blend the two affirmations into one. Levering pairs his discussion of Scripture with ecumenically oriented discussion of the doctrine of predestination in through the ages through the figures of Origen, Augustine, Boethius, John of Damascus, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ockham, Catherine of Siena, Calvin, Molina, Francis de Sales, Leibniz, Bulgakov, Barth, Maritain, and Balthasar. He concludes with a constructive chapter regarding the future of the doctrine.

Author : William George Most
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Grace
ISBN : 0931888662

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Grace, Predestination, and the Salvific Will of God by William George Most Pdf

Those interested in freedom should begin by clearly meditating on the foundation of views of the Western conception of freedom: chiefly, the Christian tradition. In this exhaustive study, Fr. William Most examines questions of predestination in the light of Divine Revelation of Holy Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church, with aid of the writings of the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Author : O'Neil
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813232546

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Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin by O'Neil Pdf

Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin seeks to analyze a revisionist movement within Thomism in the 20th century over and against the traditional or classical Thomistic commentatorial treatment of physical premotion, grace, and the permission of sin, especially as these relate to the mysteries of predestination and reprobation. The over-arching critique leveled by the revisionists against the classic treatment is that Bañezian scholasticism had disregarded the dissymmetry between the line of good (God's causation of salutary acts) and the line of evil (God's permission of defect and sin). The teaching of St. Thomas is explored via intimate consideration of his texts. The thought of St. Thomas is then compared with the work of Domingo Bañez and the foremost 'Bañezian' of the 20th century, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. The work then shifts to a consideration of the major players of the revisionist treatment, including Francisco Marín-Sola, Jacques Maritain, and Bernard Lonergan. Jean-Herve Nicolas is also taken up as one who had held both accounts during his lifetime. The work analyzes and critiques the revisionist theories according to the fundamental tenets of the classical account. Upon final analysis, it seeks to show that the classical account sufficiently distances God's causal role in regard to free salutary acts and His non-causal role in regard to free sinful acts. Moreover, the revisionist account presents significant metaphysical problems and challenges major tenets of classical theism, such as the divine omnipotence, simplicity, and the exhaustive nature of divine providence. Finally, the implications of the traditional view are considered in light of the spiritual life. It is argued that the classical account is the only one which provides an adequate theological foundation for the Church's robust mystical and spiritual tradition, and in particular, the abandonment to divine providence.

Author : David Basinger,Randall Basinger
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830876596

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Predestination & Free Will by David Basinger,Randall Basinger Pdf

If God is in control, are people really free? This question has bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize human freedom view it as a reflection of God's self-limited power. Others look at human freedom in the order of God's overall control. David and Randall Basinger have put this age-old question to four scholars trained in theology and philosophy. John Feinberg of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Norman Geisler of Dallas Theological Seminary focus on God's specific sovereignty. Bruce Reichenbach of Augsburg College and Clark Pinnock of McMaster Divinity College insist that God must limit his control to ensure our freedom. Each writer argues for his perspective and applies his theory to two practical case studies. Then the other writers respond to each of the major essays, exposing what they see as fallacies and hidden assumptions. A lively and provocative volume.

Author : Dr. Benjamin Dadebo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781465373359

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Predestination Paradox of Life by Dr. Benjamin Dadebo Pdf

The world is so wonderfully designed. Only by blatant dishonesty can anyone doubt there must be a designer:- God. There is nothing manufactured without purpose. God claims responsibility for all creation, and has a purpose and predetermined plan for all. Nothing happens on Earth without the permissive will of God. None of us chose to be born. God decided who should be born, where and how long one can live, at the end of which is judgment. The mysteries of life are resolved through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the only prescribed way. Avoid religion, a man-made deception agent.

Author : Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645852858

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The Mysteries of Christianity by Matthias Joseph Scheeben Pdf

The Mysteries of Christianity is Matthias Joseph Scheeben’s youthful magnum opus, a logically rigorous and spiritually profound dogmatic theology. In its pages, he explores the intelligibility of Christianity’s supernatural mysteries and their deep connectedness, ultimately demonstrating that Christian theology constitutes a science before the court of human reason, even as its object transcends human comprehension. Scheeben’s task is to present a unified view of the whole panorama of revealed truth, and he pursues this by considering nine key Christian mysteries: the Trinity, creation, sin, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, the Church and its sacraments, justification, eschatological glory, and predestination. Since the mystery of the Trinity is the root of the supernatural order, Scheeben begins here, showing that the foundation of the salvific economy lies in the eternal processions of persons in God—the begetting of the Son and the spiration of the Spirit being in different ways the cause of the life of grace in the human soul. When the Son and the Spirit are sent into the world in the Incarnation and through the bestowal of grace, they provide the way for human beings to see God face-to-face in the beatific vision, the end for which God created humans. Among the means of return to God, Scheeben particularly emphasizes the Eucharist, on account of its close connection with the mystery of the Incarnation. By placing his treatment of the Eucharist before that of the Church, he signals that his is a genuinely Eucharistic ecclesiology, centered on the abiding presence of the incarnate divine Son.

Author : Steven A. Long,Roger W. Nutt,Thomas Joseph White
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932589791

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Thomism and Predestination by Steven A. Long,Roger W. Nutt,Thomas Joseph White Pdf

There is perhaps no aspect of traditional Thomistic thought so contested in modern Catholic theology as the notion of predestination as presented by the classical Thomist school. What is that doctrine, and why is it so controversial? Has it been rightly understood in the context of modern debates? At the same time, the Church's traditional affirmation of a mystery of predestination is largely ignored in modern Catholic theology more generally. Why is this the case? Can a theology that emphasizes the Augustinian notion of the primacy of salvation by grace alone also forego a theology of predestination? Thomism and Predestination: Principles and Disputations considers these topics from various angles: the principles of the classical Thomistic treatment of predestination, their contested interpretation among modern theologians, examples of the doctrine as illustrated by the spiritual writings of the saints, and the challenges to Catholic theology that the Thomistic tradition continues to pose. This volume initiates readers?especially future theologians and Catholic intellectuals?to a central theme of theology that is speculatively challenging and deeply interconnected to many other elements of the faith.

Author : Joseph Degraft-Amanfu
Publisher : Degraft-Amanfu Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1450768423

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The Mystery of His Will by Joseph Degraft-Amanfu Pdf

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world (cf. Acts 15:18). The future is what God has already planned according to His own counsel and purpose. Long before God made the world, he chose certain groups and individuals for Himself - to have a special relationship to Him. For example, Abraham, the nation of Israel, the house of David, and the prophet Jeremiah were all chosen beforehand by God according to His eternal purpose. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ was elected and appointed of God as the last Adam and the man through whom He would save humanity and reconcile all things to Himself, even before the world was made. Also, by His foreknowledge, members of the church, which is the body of Christ were elected or chosen by God for Himself, for a special task, and destined to be glorified before the world began. Even though, God has not made known what was in His foreknowledge that determined His elections in His Son Jesus, the Bible is clear that God's election is not partial, random selection, and neither is it upon any merits or holiness in the elected, but upon His own sovereign will and grace. Further, the loving-kindness of God forbids that God would elect and predestine certain groups or individuals to eternal damnation.

Author : Guido Stucco
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493197606

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The Catholic Doctrine of Predestination from Luther to Jansenius by Guido Stucco Pdf

The doctrine of predestination was one of the most discussed topics in the period that goes from the beginning of the Reformation to the end of the XVII century. In this book, Guido Stucco provides a nuanced and thorough description of the unfolding of events, doctrinal developments and controversies surrounding this complex doctrine.

Author : James Bowling Mozley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Predestination
ISBN : BSB:BSB10742765

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A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination by James Bowling Mozley Pdf

Author : P. L. Ditshego
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514493984

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Predestination by P. L. Ditshego Pdf

Predestination: A Mystery of the Ages Unveiled is an expository discourse unveiling the mystery of mans pre existence in eternity past and Gods plan about him. It explores the revelation of how man was first conceived in the creative loins of the Creator God in eternity past as a spirit and soul personality and was later transferred into human mortal bodies in the dispensation of time to fulfil Gods plan. It further explores in a deep and profound manner challenges man faced and experienced while in his seed form or spirit and soul form and how those challenges had dire consequences as currently manifested in the human behaviour in the current dispensation. Lastly, it thoroughly explores Gods plan of the ages for mankind to be conformed to the image of Christ. A must read for sons and daughters of destiny indeed.

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199604524

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Predestination by Matthew Levering Pdf

A fresh introduction to and detailed exploration of the doctrine of predestination, exploring its New Testament foundations and its historical development through the thought of 16 key theologians and philosophers from the early church through to the present day.