An examination of different ways of thinking about grace and the role it plays in our lives and how we seen church. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Oxford, OH, May 2009. PDF format of a Keynote original.

1. cheap
free amazing habitual
Grace
prevenient
indefectible
subsequent sanctifying
abounding irresistible
efficacious
unmerited
uncreated

2. cheap
free amazing habitual
Grace
prevenient
indefectible
subsequent sanctifying
abounding irresistible
efficacious
unmerited
uncreated

3. amazing
Grace

4. LORD we pray thee that thy grace
maye always prevente and folowe
us, and make us continuallye to be
geven to all goode workes
thorough Jesus Christe our Lorde.
Thomas Cranmer, 1549

5. GRACE: the supernatural
assistance of God
bestowed upon a rational
being with a view to his
sanctification.
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

6. St. Augustine, 354-430

7. I have no hope at all, but
in your great mercy.
Grant what you
command and command
what you will.
St. Augustine, Confessions X.40

8. Cupiditas
v.
Caritas

9. Thou know’st, the first
time that we smell the
air, We wawl and cry.
Lear to Edgar, King Lear, IV.6

10. Pelagius, c. 354 - 420/440

11. Everything good and
everything evil, for which
we are worthy of praise
or blame, is done by us,
not born with us.
attributed to Pelagius

12. May one be pardoned
and retain th’offense?
Claudius at prayer, Hamlet, III.3

13. John Calvin, 1509-1564

14. Original sin is seen to be
an hereditary depravity
and corruption of our
nature diffused into all
parts of the soul.
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.i

15. Use every man after his
desert, and who shall
’scape whipping?
Hamlet to Polonius, II.2

16. Jacobus Arminius, 1560-1609

17. The free will of man
towards the true good
is ... lost. And its powers
are ... useless unless they
be assisted by grace.
Arminius

18. Haiti, 2010

19. Flight 1549, 2009

20. ’Twere to consider too
curiously, to consider so.
Horatio to Hamlet, V.1

21. God our Savior ... desires
everyone to be saved.
1 Timothy 2:3-4, NRSV