A Reformed Correction on the Post Reformed Doctrine of Grace

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The following is a book proposal I’ve been thinking about since March 2022. I’m still thinking about it.

 

Bobby Grow                                                                                                                                           03-17-2022

 

A Reformed Correction on the Post Reformed Doctrine of Grace

 

Introduction: On a doctrine of grace and its reality as triune personal agency versus a qualitative substance as understood within scholastic Reformed theology. A description of the debate, and programmatic entailment of the consequences of affirming grace as triune personal agency for 21st century Reformed theology.

 

PART I A CRITICAL HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE OF GRACE IN REFORMED THEOLOGY AND ITS PATRISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PAST: A SURVEY

  1. The Apostolic Fathers and Their Development
  2. The Medieval Importation of Aristotelian Categories through the Thomist Synthesis and its Failure to Secure a Genuinely Biblical Understanding of Grace
  3. The Habitus as Grace and its Attempted Reformed Correlation with Personal Agency
  4. The 20th Century Retrieval: Identification of the Problem of Grace as a Quality
  5. The After Barth Reformulation of Grace as Personal Divine Agency

 

PART II SEMPER REFORMANDA SECUNDUM VERBUM DEI: SCRIPTURE’S WORD ON GRACE

  1. The Pauline Corpus on Grace (With Special Reference to the Roman and Galatian Correspondence)
  2. The Dominical Doctrina on Grace (With Focused Attention on the Johannine Offering)

 

PART III A CORRECTION ON A DOCTRINE OF GRACE IN REFORMED THEOLOGY

  1. Towards a Doctrine of Grace that is Both catholic and Reformed

Epilogue: Resources for Further Development of a Doctrine

 

 

 

 

4 thoughts on “A Reformed Correction on the Post Reformed Doctrine of Grace”

  1. Happy New Year Bobby!
    No doubt you have more to contribute to the Church, not to publish for its own sake, or to advance your cvs,, as you have rejected many times, but in preaching the Word of God, to make Him known as THE Grace of God.
    Our Lord cause this to come to fruition, and hearts turned toward Him as not just the font of grace, but Grace itself or Himself!

  2. An ambitious and much needed work, Bobby. I will be praying for you as you develop the presentation of this important “correction”.

    My theology has been and is being re-shaped/reformed by my realization of the integral relationship of the act(s)/work(s) of God as attributes of his triune being…his nature that is ultimately and supremely (and concretely) demonstrated on the cross… (rather than in the abstract… as a quality/qualities (as I was so “schooled” in a grace-only context early in my experience as an “actualized” Christian).

  4. Richard,

    I’m not sure I’ll ever do this, not exactly as presented anyway. But it is something I first put together as a dissertation proposal, but was told it was too ambitious and more like a magnum opus. But yes, growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, who is eternal life, should have this expanding shape.

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