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In Christianity, particularly within the theological framework of Calvinism, election involves God choosing a particular person or group of people to a particular task or relationship, especially eternal life. Election to eternal life is viewed by some as conditional on a person's faith, and by others as unconditional.
According to Abasciano, the corporate view of election "has come to command a great deal of scholarly support," and its popularity is likely due to the increased sensitivity of the scholarly community to "the Jewish matrix of early Christianity and the profound indebtedness to the Old Testament on the part of the New Testament authors." [26]
Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...
Today, as was the case when Dr. King penned his seminal letter outlining his convictions in 1963, there is a gulf between the way Black faith leaders and many white faith leaders in America view ...
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For Barth, God elects Christ as rejected and chosen man. Individual people are not the subjects of election, but are elected or rejected by virtue of their being in Christ. [27] Interpreters of Barth such as Shirley Guthrie have called this a "Trinitarian" as opposed to a "speculative" view of predestination. According to Guthrie, God freely ...
Election: Unconditional election. Unconditional election. [18] [28] Conditional election in view of foreseen faith or unbelief. [29] Justification and atonement: Justification by faith alone. Various views regarding the extent of the atonement. [30] Justification for all men, [31] completed at Christ's death and effective through faith alone ...
Conditional election grounded upon God's middle-knowledge which is Molinism, this has been taught by the Free Grace author John Correia. [143] [144] Qualitive election which is the view that God's election is always unto service, this has been taught by Shawn Lazar along with the Grace Evangelical Society. [145] [146]