Sin, Grace and Free Will

A Historical Survey of Christian Thought: Volume III: From Molina to Barth

by Matthew Knell

Book cover: Sin, Grace and Free Will

Extent: 200 pages

Publisher: James Clarke & Co

Subjects: Religious Studies

Language: English

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(August 2025)

ISBN: 9780227905722

Price: $23.99

Volume 3: From Molina to Barth In the third and final volume, Knell takes his readers through the crucial thinkers of the early modern and modern period. Tracing the new traditions of authority in the interpretation of scripture, and the continuities and developments that emerge through the work of thinkers such as Luis de Molina, Arminius, Jonathan Edwards, and Karl Barth, Knell illuminates his key concepts of Sin, Grace and Free Will anew. Considering the impact of such ideological and cultural shifts as Modernism and the Enlightenment, as well as the growing influence of agnostic or atheistic philosophy, his nuanced, source-focussed approach is an indispensable primer for any beginning scholar.

Matthew Knell is Lecturer in Historical Theology and Church History at the London School of Theology, as well as lecturing for Notre Dame University, Indiana, in the London Global Gateway and for the London programme of Biola University. He studies historical theology and is the author of The Immanent Person of the Holy Spirit from Anselm to Lombard: Divine Communion in the Spirit (2009). In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters and his students past and present.

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