Divine Election: A Catholic Orientation in Dogmatic and Ecumenical Perspective - Softcover

Echeverria, Eduardo J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625649924 ISBN 13: 9781625649928

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2016

Synopsis

This dogmatic study addresses two perennial questions. First, how do we reconcile God's sovereignty with human freedom, not just in general, but particularly with respect to the Church's full understanding of God's plan of salvation as a work of grace? Second (and equally crucial) is the question of how we reconcile God's universal salvific will with the mystery of predestination, election, and reprobation. The author of this study does theology within the normative tradition of confessional Catholicism, and thus in the light of Catholic teaching. But this study is also an ecumenical work, indeed, a work in receptive ecumenism, and hence he listens attentively to the reflections and arguments not only of his fellow Catholic theologians (Matthias Joseph Scheeben and Hans Urs von Balthasar) but also theologians of the Evangelical and Reformed traditions (John Calvin, Herman Bavinck, Karl Barth, and G. C. Berkouwer). This book concludes with a Catholic synthesis regarding the doctrine of divine election in dogmatic and ecumenical perspective.

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About the Author

Eduardo J. Echeverria is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. His publications include Berkouwer and Catholicism: Disputed Questions (2013) and Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II (2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1625649924
• ISBN 13: 9781625649928
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 316