{"product_id":"2940012330178","title":"A Display of Arminianism","description":"The relation of man to his Creator has engaged the attention of earnest\u003cbr\u003e   and thoughtful minds, from the days of the patriarch of Uz to the most\u003cbr\u003e   recent controversies of modern times. The entrance of sin into the\u003cbr\u003e   world has vastly complicated this relationship; so that, considered in\u003cbr\u003e   its various bearings, it involves some of the most difficult problems\u003cbr\u003e   with which the human intellect has ever attempted to grapple. The\u003cbr\u003e   extent to which the intellect itself has been weakened and beclouded by\u003cbr\u003e   the corruption of our nature, renders us the less able to penetrate\u003cbr\u003e   into the deep mysteries of human duty and destiny. Whether man sins now\u003cbr\u003e   as essentially affected with the taint of the first sin, and involved\u003cbr\u003e   in the responsibilities of the first sinner, or sins wholly on his own\u003cbr\u003e   account and by his own free act, under the bias of no connection with\u003cbr\u003e   Adam, except what connection obtains between example on the one hand\u003cbr\u003e   and imitation on the other? whether, on the supposition of a scheme of\u003cbr\u003e   saving grace, grace is simply divine and external aid to the will of\u003cbr\u003e   man, already operating freely in the direction of what is good, and so\u003cbr\u003e   establishing a meritorious claim upon God for the bestowal of such aid,\u003cbr\u003e   or a supernatural influence creating in man the very liberty itself to\u003cbr\u003e   will and to do what is good? and whether, in the latter view of divine\u003cbr\u003e   grace, as bestowed in divine sovereignty, and therefore according to a\u003cbr\u003e   divine purpose, it can be reconciled with human responsibility? -- are\u003cbr\u003e   the questions which produced the sharp encounter of keen and\u003cbr\u003e   conflicting wits between Pelagius and Augustine of old.","brand":"JohnOwen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179815649520,"sku":"2940012330178","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012330178_p0.jpg?v=1763567572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012330178","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}