Faith, Grace, and Freedom

Ottó Pecsuk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.Miklós Vassányi is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of General Humanities at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

• Preface by the editors I. Augustine: Source and Synthesis 1. Intellect and Will in the Light of Divine Grace: Augustine on the Way to Beata Vita 2. The Development of Augustine’s Concept of Faith, and the Augustinian Conception of the Development of Faith 3. Re-entangling Augustine: Augustine and Calvin on the Divine Image 4. Grace and Human Thinking: The Ability to Think (2 Cor. 3:5) from Augustine to Jansenius II. The Founding Fathers on Faith and Freedom 5. “Freely I have Received thy Grace” (Odes of Solomon 5,3a). Christian Authors between Justin Martyr and Origen on Human Freedom 6. The Theological Correlation Between Grace and Faith 7. Faith and Grace in Novatian 8. Abraham as the Model of Faith in Ambrosiaster 9. Chrysostom’s Teaching on Grace 10. Faith in Some Early Syriac Fathers (’Aphrahaṭ, ’Ephrem, Theodore of Mopsuestia in Syriac Translation and Philoxenus of Mabbug) – as a Context for Denys the Areopagite 11. Human Nature’s Capacity for Grace: Obediential Potency in the Thought of St. Maximos the Confessor III. Renaissance Renewers, Rebels and Renegades 12. Self-Redeeming Platonism: Faith and Christology in Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, and Tommaso Campanella 13. Faith and Grace in the Third Book of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia 14. The Grace of Marriage according to Irenaeus and Erasmus IV. Reformed Fathers Reaching Back 15. The Psychology of Faith: Lutherans and Augustinians 16. Calvin in Conversation with Origen: Reference to Origen on Grace in John Calvin’s Institutes (1559–1560) 17. Church Fathers as Proto-Lutherans: Martin Chemnitz’s Case for the Patristic Basis of Lutheran Soteriology Index