Between Nature and Grace

About this episode

The episode explores the nature-grace debate and its implications for theology and anthropology.

Send us Fan Mail Derek Rishmawy, James Wood, and Joseph Minich trace the nature-grace debate from de Lubac's challenge to neoscholastic "pure nature" through Blondel, Bavinck, and Betz's Christ the Logos of Creation — asking what's actually at stake: the gratuity of grace, the coherence of theological anthropology, and the twin dangers of secular dualism and pantheist collapse. — Get Spiritual Formation for the Family ebook for free at http://mereorthodoxy.com/family. Mere Fidelity is a ...

People in this episode

Guests: Derek Rishmawy, James Wood, Joseph Minich

Topics covered

• nature-grace debate
• theological anthropology
• secular dualism
• pantheism
• gratuity of grace
• Christian theology

Keywords

• nature
• grace
• theology
• Christianity
• de Lubac
• Bavinck
• Blondel
• secularism
• pantheism

Sponsors

Mere Orthodoxy, Baker Book House, Beeson Divinity School

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mere Orthodoxy, Beeson Divinity School

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