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BL
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1017713
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b772083
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| Main Entry
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Cary, Phillip,1958-
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| Title & Author
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Inner grace : : Augustine in the traditions of Plato and Paul /\ Phillip Cary.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2008.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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019804433X
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: 1435633792
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: 9780198044338
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: 9781435633797
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0195336488
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9780195336481
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Platonist 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 -- Good will before Paul -- Willing becomes difficult -- 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.
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| Abstract
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Most theologians want to paint the development of Augustine's doctrine of grace as a turn away from Platonist philosophy to something more distinctively Christian, but Phillip Cary argues that it is a synthesis of the two, a development within Augustine's Christian Platonism.
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Augustine,354-430.
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Augustine,354-430
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Grace (Theology)
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Grace (Theology)
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RELIGION-- Christian Theology-- Systematic.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.
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Theology.
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Bible., Epistles of Paul-- Theology.
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Bible., Epistles of Paul.
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| Dewey Classification
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230/.14092
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BR65.A9C28 2008eb
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