Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances

Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances

Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances

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Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances by Jeff McSwain

To Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Torrances, grace is not an abstract truth; it is reality itself. By God's revelation in Jesus Christ we are given the blessed assurance to know that all human beings are included in the humanity of the Savior. And in Christ we discover the movements of grace, a double movement at once God-humanward and human-Godward, all by the Holy Spirit. These theologians were keen to remind us that Christ's ongoing mediatorship includes all appropriate human responses to God. In fact, only by grace and in union with Christ do we have true response-ability. It is this "going with the flow" of the Holy Spirit en Christo that makes Christo-realism so dynamic and life-giving.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608996308
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 09/28/2010
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jeff McSwain (BA, Davidson College, MLitt, University of St. Andrews, Scotland) is the founder and Executive Director of Reality Ministries Incorporated, a community-based, inter-church outreach in Durham, North Carolina. The mission of Reality Ministries is to help adolescents live into the loving presence and life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jeremy Begbie ix

Preface xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: Awakening to Grace as Reality xv

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ambassadors of Reconciliation 1

Preaching Jesus Christ as the Gospel of Grace and the Ground of Faith: A View from the Evangelical Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance 5

Chapter 2 Introduction: Grace in the Face of Evil 65

The "Yes" of Reality and the Meaning of Grace in Barth and Bonhoeffer 69

Chapter 3 Introduction: "Go with the Spirit!" 107

Prayer as Grace 111

Conclusion: This I Know 143

Epilogue 147

Bibliography 149

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