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Election

Before the foundation of the world, whom does God choose, and on what terms?

Election is God's choosing of persons for salvation, a theme drawn from Romans 8 and 9, Ephesians 1, and the writings of Augustine. The traditions differ sharply on its terms: the Augustinian and Reformed traditions hold election to be unconditional, resting on God's free grace alone, while synergist traditions understand it as conditional, taking account of foreseen human response. The debate turns on how grace and human freedom relate in salvation.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Peter
    Rome · 64
    explains
  2. Romans
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  3. Ephesians
    Rome · 67
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  4. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    applies
  5. 2 Thessalonians
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  6. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  7. Acts
    Rome · 84
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  8. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  9. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  13. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  15. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus
    Aquileia · 411
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  18. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. On Patience
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
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  28. Discussion: Second Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  29. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  30. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  31. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  32. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
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  33. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  34. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. Inquiry Concerning Qualification for Communion
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. Dissertation on the End for Which God Created the World
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of will
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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