The Gracing of Human Experience

The Gracing of Human Experience PDF Author: Donald L. Gelpi SJ
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725220431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Book Description
This study ponders different ways Christian thinkers understood humanity in its relationship to divine grace. It names fallacies that have in the past skewed theological understanding of that relationship. It argues that the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce avoided those same fallacies and provides a novel frame of reference for rethinking the theology of grace. The author shows how the insights of other American philosophers flesh out undeveloped aspects of Peirce's thought. He formulates a metaphysics of experience derived from his philosophical analysis. Finally, he develops an understanding of supernatural grace as the transmutation and transvaluation of human experience.