Striving with Grace : Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (437 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Doctrine Defined: The Influence of Augustine -- 2 Cooperating with Grace: Gregory the Great, Apostle to the English -- 3 Meriting Grace: The Venerable Bede -- 4 Alfred the Great and the Old English Boethius -- 5 Lantfred of Winchester and the Carmen de libero arbitrio -- 6 Wulfstan the Homilist and De adiutorio Dei et libero arbitrio -- 7 Ælfric of Eynsham and the Sermones catholici -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Patristic Texts in Paul the Deacon and Smaragdus -- Appendix II: Bede's Homiliae - Editions and Parallels to In Lucae and In Marci euangelium expositio -- Appendix III: Primary Texts -- Edition and Translation of De adiutorio Dei et libero arbitrio -- Edition and Translation of Carmen de libero arbitrio -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Striving with Graceshows that all of these authors, despite striking differences in their sources and logic, underscore humanity's need for grace even as they labour to affirm the legitimacy of human effort.