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What’s Amazing About Grace?
Citation (APA): Pinsent, A. (2017). What’s Amazing About Grace? [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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What’s Amazing About Grace? By Andrew Pinsent•
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Does God determine everything else, or can the actions of God also be determined, in some way, by created beings, such as ourselves?
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ONNIPOTENZA
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but those who are non-religious and the irreligious face some surprisingly similar challenges.
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TRADUZIONE SECOLARE
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Imagine also that this supreme ruler happens to be all-wise and wholly untouched by vice (we can be creative in thought experiments). Should anyone else then get a say in how society works,
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IL GOVERNO DEL MIGLIORE
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is power better concentrated or diffused,
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most people make mistakes
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should society be like a perfectly designed and operated machine, or like a garden that includes spontaneity and voluntary
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RIFORMULIAMO
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what may seem like an exclusively theological issue is also a political one,
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TEOLOGIA E POLITICA
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For the ancient Greek philosophers until the end of the Middle Ages, the root metaphor of the world was usually organic, inspired by living and growing things.
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ANTICHITÀ E MONDO ORGANISMO
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with the development of mechanical clocks and the success of early modern science in explaining the orbits of the planets by simple laws, the root metaphor of reality became that of the machine in a Cartesian box-like space.
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POI MACCHINA
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This concentration has the benefit of simplicity, but conflicts with the picture that emerges from many theological texts, including the Bible, in which human beings appear to be players
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DIO CAUSA PRIMA. CONFLITTI
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This approach also conflicts with our self-understanding,
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INTROSPEZ
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One of the cornerstones of Christian doctrine is that salvation comes from God, not from us. What role then do we play in our salvation?
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PILASTRO DELLA GRAZIA CHE SALVA
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If there is just one kind of cause, then the problem of the understanding divine and human contributions risks becoming a zero-sum game in which our contribution, if any, fills up a deficiency in God’s contribution,
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MONOCAUSALITÀ E ZEROSUM
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it makes the human and divine contributions differ only in degree, not in kind,
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DOVE ARRIVO IO RECEDE LUI
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how to be saved if one’s will is not good to start with,
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PROBLEMA
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grace is the ingredient missing from the interplay of God’s will and our wills.
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CIÒ CHE MANCA
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grace provides to our wills,
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GRAZIA E COMPATIBILISMO
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As a special divine action, grace is an unmerited gift from God. But it is not something merely external to us, like a divine “Oomph!”
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LA GRAZIA SIAMO NOI
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the parable of the sower told by Jesus Christ (Matthew 13: 1– 23, Mark 4: 1– 20, and Luke 8: 1– 15),
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SEMINATORE
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All the ground needs to do is to cease to resist the seed, and a plant will start to grow.
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FRUTTIFICARE
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philosopher Eleonore Stump,
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we don’t have to begin with a good will; all we need is to have the will in a “neutral position,” to cease to resist grace.
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NEUTRALI
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a human being participates in the life of God
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CAMBIARE IMMAGINE…
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Rather than thinking of divine will and human will as independent
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Does a parent cause a child to act, or a child cause a parent to act?
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METAFORA
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triggers an interpersonal action,
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As any parent with a child knows, or anyone who has experienced deep friendship and love with another person, it is not exclusively one will or the other taking the initiative,
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METAFORA DEL GENITORE
