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Karl Barth on the irresistible nature of grace

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Date
05/2016
Author
Torrance, Andrew Bartholomew
Keywords
Karl Barth
Irresistible Grace
Systematic theology
Church Dogmatics
Human freedom
BR Christianity
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Abstract
Few issues have been as divisive for the contemporary church as the doctrine of irresistible grace. In the debates surrounding this doctrine, there has been an overwhelming tendency for theologies of grace to focus on the effects that grace has on particular human beings. Alongside this tendency, there has arisen a danger that we forget that God’s grace is God’s grace; that it is God’s free, personal, and beneficent disposition and action. In this article, I turn to Karl Barth to consider a way forward for interpreting the irresistible nature of grace that does not focus on its effectuality but on its theocentric, participative, and covenantal character.
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Torrance , A B 2016 , ' Karl Barth on the irresistible nature of grace ' , Journal of Reformed Theology , vol. 10 , no. 2 , 1 , pp. 103-128 . https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01002013
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Journal of Reformed Theology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01002013
ISSN
1569-7312
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016 Koninklijke Brill NV. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697312-01002013
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13272

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