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An examination of different ways of thinking about grace and the role it plays in our lives and how we seen church. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Oxford, OH, May 2009. PDF format of a Keynote original.
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Graceprevenient
abounding
free
unmerited
cheap
irresistible
indefectiblesubsequent
efficacious
habitual
uncreated
sanctifying
amazing
amazing
Graceprevenient
abounding
free
unmerited
cheap
irresistible
indefectiblesubsequent
efficacious
habitual
uncreated
sanctifying
amazing
Grace
LORD we pray thee that thy grace maye always prevente and folowe us, and make us continuallye to be
geven to all goode workes thorough Jesus Christe our Lorde.
Thomas Cranmer, 1549
GRACE: the supernatural assistance of God
bestowed upon a rational being with a view to his
sanctification.
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
St. Augustine, 354-430
I have no hope at all, but in your great mercy.
Grant what you command and command
what you will.
St. Augustine, Confessions X.40
Cupiditasv.
Caritas
Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry.
Lear to Edgar, King Lear, IV.6
Pelagius, c. 354 - 420/440
Everything good and everything evil, for which we are worthy of praise or blame, is done by us,
not born with us.
attributed to Pelagius
May one be pardoned and retain th’offense?
Claudius at prayer, Hamlet, III.3
John Calvin, 1509-1564
Original sin is seen to be an hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature diffused into all
parts of the soul.
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.i
Use every man after his desert, and who shall
’scape whipping?
Hamlet to Polonius, II.2
Jacobus Arminius, 1560-1609
The free will of man towards the true good
is ... lost. And its powers are ... useless unless they
be assisted by grace.
Arminius
Haiti, 2010
Flight 1549, 2009
’Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
Horatio to Hamlet, V.1
God our Savior ... desires everyone to be saved.
1 Timothy 2:3-4, NRSV
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