Grace for Grace: The Debates after Augustine and Pelagius - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813226015 ISBN 13: 9780813226019

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014

Synopsis

The contributors to Grace for Grace focus on the debates on grace and free will inspired by Augustine's later teachings on grace and the various reactions to it. In both popular and scholarly literature, the conflict has been traditionally referred to as the "Semi-Pelagian Controversy." For several decades, scholars have distanced themselves from that overly-simplistic and inaccurate portrayal. This book intends to solidify a disparate movement of scholarly thought and offer a secure basis for renewed study of the persons, texts, and events of this critical period in the reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages. This volume brings together new perspectives, based on fresh study of a wealth of primary sources, from an international team of scholars to explore the intra- church debates over grace and free will, after Augustine and Pelagius. Contributors to this volume are: Rebecca Harden Weaver (Union Presbyterian Theological Seminary), Eugene Teselle (Vanderbilt University), Roland Teske S. J. (Marquette University), Alexander Y. Hwang (Saint Leo University), Raúl Villegas Marín (University of Barcelona), Jeremy Demulle (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Tommy Hump- hries (Saint Leo University), Boniface Ramsey (Saint Joseph's Church, NY), Augustine Casiday (Cardiff University), Francis X. Gumerlock (Providence Theological Seminary), Matthew Pereira (Loyola University Marymount), Ralph Mathisen (University of Illinois), Brian J. Matz (Carroll College), and Nestor Kavvadas (Univerity of Tübingen)

About this title

About the Author:

ALEXANDER Y. HWANG is at Saint Leo University. BRIAN J. MATZ is at Carroll University. AUGUSTINE CASIDAY is at the University of Wales, UK.

Review:

"a cohesive collection of scholarly essays on a vitally important but often neglected area of historical theology."―JP Blosser, CHOICE

"invites the reader to reconsider traditional ways of viewing the Augustinian debate Grace for Grace, then, is a book that meets the interests of a wide audience. Not only scholars of the Pelagian and 'semi-Pelagian' controversy will find it valuable, but also those interested in the theoogy of Grace and in the relations between Eastern and Western theology in Late Antiquity and in the early Middle Ages."―Giulio Malavasi - Padova University, Vigiliae Christianae

"This volume, representing the work of 14 significant scholars of the subject, goes a long way toward charting a direction for a thorough reappraisal of the post-Augustinian discussions about grace."―Donald Fairbairn, Augustiniana

"The collection is most well-suited to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists, both at Liberal Arts institutions and larger research universities."―Sean Otto, Wycliffe College, Univ Toronto, Theological Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813226015
• ISBN 13: 9780813226019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Alexander Y. Hwang, Brian Matz, Augustine Casiday