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Grace and Freedom addresses the issue of divine grace in relation
to the freedom of the will in Reformed or "Calvinist" theology in
the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. It focuses on the
work of the English Reformed theologian William Perkins, especially
his role as an apologist of the Church of England, defending its
theology against the Roman Catholic polemic, and specifically
against the charge that Reformed theology denies human free choice.
Perkins and his Reformed contemporaries affirm that salvation
occurs by grace alone and that God is the ultimate cause of all
things, but they also insist on the freedom of the human will and
specifically the freedom of choice in a way that does not conform
to modern notions of "libertarian freedom" or "compatibilism." In
developing this position, Perkins drew on the thought of Reformers
such as Peter Martyr Vermigli and Zacharias Ursinus, on the nuanced
positions of medieval scholastics, and several contemporary Roman
Catholic representatives of the so-called "second scholasticism."
His work was a major contribution to early modern Reformed thought
both in England and on the continent. His influence in England
extended both to the Reformed heritage of the Church of England and
to English Puritanism. On the continent, his work contributed to
the main lines of Reformed orthodoxy and to the piety of the Dutch
Second Reformation.
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