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Aquinas and Calvin on Romans - God's Justification and Our Participation (Hardcover)
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Aquinas and Calvin on Romans - God's Justification and Our Participation (Hardcover)
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Aquinas and Calvin on Romans is a comparative study of John
Calvin's and Thomas Aquinas's commentaries on the first eight
chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans. Focusing on the role of
human participation in God's work of salvation, Charles Raith
argues that Calvin's critiques of the "schoolmen" arising from his
reading of Romans fail to find a target in Aquinas's theology while
Calvin's principal positive affirmations are embraced by Aquinas as
well. Aquinas upholds many fundamental insights that Calvin would
later also obtain in his reading of Romans, such as justification
sola fide non merito (by faith alone and not by merit), the
centrality of Christ for salvation, the ongoing imperfection of the
sanctified life, the work of the Spirit guiding the believer along
the path of sanctification, and the assurance of salvation that one
obtains through the indwelling of the Spirit, to name only a few.
Even more, numerous identical interpretations arising in their
commentaries makes it necessary to consider Calvin's reading of
Romans as appropriating a tradition of interpretation that includes
Aquinas. At the same time, the nonparticipatory dimensions of
Calvin's reading of Romans becomes clear when set beside Aquinas's
reading, and these nonparticipatory dimensions create difficulties
for Calvin's interpretation, especially on Romans 8, that are not
present in Aquinas's account. Raith therefore suggests how Calvin's
reading of Romans, especially as it pertains to justification and
merit, should be augmented by the participatory framework reflected
in Aquinas's interpretation. The book concludes by revisiting
Calvin's criticisms of the Council of Trent in light of these
suggestions.
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