Steward of God’s Mysteries: Paul and Early Church Tradition. By Jerry L.Sumney. Pp. 223, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017, ppb, £23.99.

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1046
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Turner
Keyword(s):  
Early Church ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
Church Tradition

Predestination and Divine Foreknowledge in the Sermons of Pope Leo the Great

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Philip L. Barclift
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Divine Foreknowledge ◽  
Latin Church ◽  
Common Era ◽  
Church Tradition

During the fifth century of our common era the Latin church fathers struggled to explain how we humans are saved and why it seems that not all humans are saved. Most of these attempts pivoted on the writings of Augustine of Hippo. The fathers either borrowed from Augustine's thought, adapted it, or reacted to it. Beginning with the generation of theologians who thrived at the end of Augustine's life and just following his death, there arose a tendency in the western church to moderate his more extreme positions concerning grace and predestination by realigning them with accepted church tradition. This tradition includes those Christian doctrines which were held and promoted most widely by theologians—up to, but not including, Augustine himself—whom the early church accepted as orthodox.

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