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Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths 1st Edition

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (July 14, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199604525
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199604524
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 1 x 5.7 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsWell worth reading for anyone who seriously thinks about Predestination
By Matthew on March 20, 2013
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This book is very helpful in thinking about Predestination. Levering argues, learning from Catherine of Siena and Francis de Sales, that any doctrine of Predestination must affirm God's superabundant love: God's love has no deficiency, and must also affirm (with Augustine/Thomas) that God's providence and causality is all encompassing: all Good is from God. These affirmations, granting the Biblical witness that some are in fact lost, cannot be synthesized in this life.

This book is Biblical, historical and speculative. It is Biblical in two ways: first, insofar as it begins by showing the Biblical witness on Predestination, and second, insofar as it continually relates the claims (his own and other theologians) to Scripture. It is historical because it traces predestination through time giving us chapters (after Scripture) on the Patristic period (Augustine, Damascene, Origen, Boethius), the medieval period (John Scottus Eriugena, Aquinas, Ockham and Catherine of Siena), the Reformation and Early Modern period (Calvin, Molina, Francis de Sales, and Leibniz) and finally the period of the 20th century (Bulgakov, Barth, Maritain, and Balthasar). It is speculative not only for its synthesis in the end based on Thomas' theocentric metaphysics and Scripture, but also because of its focus on the issue throughout the book. Levering is not simply concerned about the history of it (this guy says this and that guy says that) but is constantly thinking about how what is said relates to the thing itself.

Highly recommended!
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4.0 out of 5 starsA fine introduction to predestination
By Randal Rauser on September 18, 2013
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In recent years the perennial debate over predestination has moved centre stage in North American Protestantism with the rise of the so-called "New Calvinism". Unfortunately that debate is typically restricted to the relatively narrow dogmatic confines of Calvinism vs. Arminianism. This makes Matthew Levering's "Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths", a book conversant with the whole Christian tradition, both timely and refreshing.

In his introduction Levering lays out the core problem:

"If God permits some rational creatures to be ultimately lost ... can predestination be upheld while also affirming that God's love from eternity for each and every rational creature is unrestricted and superabundant?" (7)

The book contemplates this and other questions in a chronological progression with sixteen interlocutors over five chapters. Each chapter is devoted to a different period: Biblical (chapter one), Patristic (chapter two), Medieval (chapter three), Reformation (chapter four), and Twentieth Century (chapter five).

The sixteen interlocutors represent five different positions on election. To begin with there are those who explain predestination in terms of human self-determination. This group is represented by John of Damascus, John Eriugena, William of Ockham, and Luis de Molina. The second group emphasizes God's determining role in predestination but attributes the decree of reprobation to divine permission. This view is represented by Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas. The third position, represented by John Calvin, affirms that God's active predestination extends not only to election but to reprobation as well.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThick in the Catholic Tradition with both scholarly depth and a humble posture of fidelity.
By Bradley R. Cochran on December 17, 2014
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This Oxford Press treatment is destined to become a staple for academic and theological study. Levering is thick in the Catholic Tradition with both scholarly depth and a humble posture of fidelity to God's unbound and unlimited charity and human freedom *and* the divine and unmerited predestination, two values that usually drive Protestant to different camps. He proves the Catholic spirit of "both/and" by attempting to find a historical precedent for carving an acceptable and responsible "path" within the affirmation of these paradoxical poles. It would be nice if evangelical seminaries would require this book (or chapters from it) for their classes in Systematic Theology: it's such a shame that Catholics are discussing the same issues with a more informed historical approach (that doesn't start at Augustine and skip to the Reformation) and yet so many Reformed Protestant academic theologians are working out their cherished doctrines of predestination without consulting books like these. Instead I'm afraid in many seminaries students have the overall impression that their choices are between (1) Pelagianism, (2) Arminianism, and (3) Calvinist Predestinarianism. This book is simply a must read for any serious study of the topic.
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