Faith, Grace, and Freedom Explorations in Early Christianity and Early Modern Theology and Philosophy

List of Contributors

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

Tianyue Wu

2. The Development of Augustine’s Concept of Faith, and the Augustinian Conception of the Development of Faith

Gábor Kendeffy

3. Re-entangling Augustine: Augustine and Calvin on the Divine Image

Matthew Drever

4. Grace and Human Thinking: The Ability to Think (2 Cor. 3:5) from Augustine to Jansenius

Aza Goudriaan

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

István M. Bugár

6. The Theological Correlation Between Grace and Faith

Márton Hoványi

7. Faith and Grace in Novatian

György Heidl

8. Abraham as the Model of Faith in Ambrosiaster

Ottó Pecsuk

9. Chrysostom’s Teaching on Grace

Gergely Hanula

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

Miklós Vassányi

11. Human Nature’s Capacity for Grace: Obediential Potency in the Thought of St. Maximos the Confessor

Dominic V. Cassella

III. Renaissance Renewers, Rebels and Renegades

12. Self-Redeeming Platonism: Faith and Christology in Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, and Tommaso Campanella

Elisabeth Blum ‒ Paul Richard Blum

13. Faith and Grace in the Third Book of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia

Monika Frazer-Imregh

14. The Grace of Marriage according to Irenaeus and Erasmus

Cyril Pasquier

IV. Reformed Fathers Reaching Back

15. The Psychology of Faith: Lutherans and Augustinians

Mark W. Elliott

16. Calvin in Conversation with Origen: Reference to Origen on Grace in John Calvin’s Institutes (1559–1560)

Xavier Philippart

17. Church Fathers as Proto-Lutherans: Martin Chemnitz’s Case for the Patristic Basis of Lutheran Soteriology

Andreas Bergman

Index

Biography

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.