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Evangelical Free Will - Phillipp Melanchthon's Doctrinal Journey on the Origins of Faith (Hardcover)
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Evangelical Free Will - Phillipp Melanchthon's Doctrinal Journey on the Origins of Faith (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theological Monographs
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If one is saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ, then what is the
origin of that faith? Is it a preordained gift of God to elect
individuals, or is some measure of human free choice involved?
The debate over the relation between election and free will has a
central place in the study of Reformation theology. Phillipp
Melanchthon's reputation as the intellectual founder of Lutheranism
has tended to obscure the differences between the mature doctrinal
positions of Melanchthon and Martin Luther on this key issue.
Gregory Graybill charts the progression of Melanchthon's position
on free will and divine predestination as he shifts from agreement
to an important innovation upon Luther's thought.
Initially Melanchthon concurred with Luther that the human will is
completely bound by sin, and that the choice of faith can flow only
from God's unilateral grace. Over time, this understanding caused
Melanchthon increasing concern. The problem of its eternal
implications for those whom God has not chosen, and its pastoral
implications for believers, combined with Melanchthon's own
intellectual aversion to paradox and prompted him to continue
developing his ideas.
Melanchthon came to believe that the human will does play a key
role in the origins of a saving faith in Jesus Christ. This was not
the Roman Catholic free will of Erasmus, rather it was belief in a
limited free will tied to justification by faith alone; an
evangelical free will.
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