Grace Joel

The book of Joel is held to be one of the latest prophetic witnesses; it cites other books of the book of the Twelve prophets with a density that distinguishes it from its neighbou...

The eloquent and uncompromising calls for social righteousness by some of the Minor Prophets are familiar to many, yet the writings themselves are probably the least studied and le...

This chapter discusses the work of three New Zealand novelists: Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, and Patricia Grace. Frame began to publish in the late 1940s, Gee in the mid-1950s, and Gr...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds—and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically,...

A life in grace begins with a surrender to God on the part of a person Jerome as Jerome is coming to faith. That surrender includes a change from the state of resisting God’s love ...

This chapter engages the work of Augustine on divine grace and human freedom in salvation. It works through the types of divine action seen in Augustine’s writings on grace in the ...

This chapter takes as its starting point the Thomistic interpretation of the doctrine of the atonement, on which the role of the atonement is to bring a human person into a life in...

Divorce is a much maligned state of life, especially because it spells failure—not only of a marriage relationship, but even of Christian ideals about marriage. Some Christians rep...