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Grace

The favor no one earns: God's free saving help, given before we ask

Grace is God's unmerited favor and saving help, freely given to humanity, a theme woven through Paul's letters and developed by Augustine. Its nature is contested: traditions differ over whether grace is prevenient, irresistible, or cooperating. Augustinian and Reformed thinkers emphasize grace's sovereign initiative, Catholic teaching speaks of grace that humans cooperate with, and synergist views stress the joining of divine grace and human response. All affirm that grace originates in God.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. 2 Corinthians
    Philippi · 67
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  3. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  4. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  5. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  6. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  8. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  9. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  12. A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  13. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  14. A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  15. A Treatise on Nature and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  16. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
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  28. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  29. Internal Consolation
    Zwolle · 1471
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  30. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  31. Discussion: First Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  32. Discussion: Third Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  33. Discussion: Second Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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