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F. Earle Fox
Defining 'Oughtness' & 'Love' is now combined with Biblical Theology & Pelagianism, two articles published in the Journal of Religion back in the 1950's to become The Law & the Grace of God - an Invitation to a Wedding.
The LAW & the GRACE of GOD --- is now (11/16/09) posted. The text is available (approx. 65 pages). Index and some formatting remain to be finished. Also the study guides. When finished, it will be available for sale. You can read it here online until it is published. Then there will be selected pages available.
You will see notes to myself and red change bars in the margins (indicating recent changes in the text). They will all disappear as formatting, etc., gets finished. Comments regarding unclear passages would be welcomed (efox2@theroadtoemmaus.org ).
Two original articles make up the
main body of the new text. Defining 'Oughtness' & 'Love' is
available on line (Defining 'Oughtness' &
'Love' ). Biblical Theology & Pelagianism is not online
separately, but the original text is available in print at the
Shopping Mall.
The LAW & the GRACE of GOD
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Preface - an introduction to the logically necessary connection (1) between moral and theological issues, and (2) between personal salvation and the public arena.
Part I - Defining 'Oughtness' & 'Love' -- The logical case for saying that all moral and ethical language is based on the law of God, our purpose for existence -- which only a Creator can give.
Only if we understand these foundations of moral language can we adequately deal with the theological debates over grace and freewill, the heart of the Pelagianism debate.
Discerning the difference between the "good" and the
"right" in resolving many apparent contradictions and inconsistencies in ethics.
Part II - Biblical Theology & Pelagianism -- on the Augustinian-Pelagian Debate concerning freewill vs. grace, and the sovereignty of God.
A study of the Bible, Greek Philosophy, Augustine, Pelagius, William of Occam, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther -- on the issues of grace and freewill, the atonement of Jesus Christ, and the sovereignty of God. Contrary to most of Christian history, these categories are in no sense opposed, but work seamlessly together as the law and grace of God. Getting these notions logically together should be a sizeable boon to the publicly perceived intellectual integrity of the Christian faith.
Part III - Hieros Gamos: the Wedding of Law & Grace -- on the social and political fallout of the demise of Biblical government due to Christian inability to explain the law of God, and the rise of "positivist" law beginning in the middle 1800's. On how personal salvation is the foundation for integrity in the public arena, and how Biblical government was effectively destroyed in America. The theological foundations of Biblical thinking must be restored so that the Biblical understanding of salvation can again become the foundations for a sane public arena.
See also, Personality, Empiricism, & God, Vol. I of A Personalist Cosmology in Imago Dei for the cosmological foundations for the above -- the cosmological argument for the existence of God.
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