Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace...
...wrote Saint Paul, to whom God's grace was one of the cornerstones of his religion. In his epistles he referred to charis (grace) 100 times. What is grace? Neither the Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject of theological controversy since the Church was young. Those who want to hear more about it will welcome a little book, published last week, by the Church of England's Rev. Oscar Hardman-The Christian Doctrine of Grace (Macmillan...
...Thou?" Most of the early writing on grace was done by Saint Paul and Saint Augustine.* Both had special reason to know what they were talking about. Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage. Each felt himself to have been saved by God through no merit or initiative of his own, indeed almost against his will. This, they said, was the grace of God: a divine gift bestowed not on the worthy-for all men are equally deserving of damnation-but to a few selected...
...save everyone would be presumptuous: "O man, who art thou that repliest against God?" warned Paul (Romans 9:20). The uncomfortable fact is, said Augustine, that ever since Eden, man has possessed virtually no initiative for good at all. He is almost entirely dependent upon God's "prevenient grace," which gives him the desire to do God's will, and "subsequent grace," which enables...
...Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved...