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In this book, T. F. Torrance aims to discover how and why an enormous difference came about in the early history of the Christian Church between the faith of the New Testament and that of the second and third centuries. He explores how the concept of grace is distinctively characteristic of every doctrine of the New Testament, and yet at the same time is the most changeable.

The classical word χάρις derives from the same root as do χαίρω, χαρά, χάρμα, χαρτός, etc., and in its original and fundamental sense is applied to what awakens pleasure or secures joy. It is the quality giving pleasure or thrilling the aesthetic sensibility. This is radical to nearly all uses of the word from the earliest times. So applied charis comes to cover a very wide range, variously meaning grace, charm, elegance,
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