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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.

and deed, in death and resurrection, was God’s own personal intervention in human sin unto salvation. That God should stoop to the Cross out of love for men was well-nigh incredible, but that was the truth that broke out of darkness into Paul’s mind.1 Jesus Himself was the deed of God’s unspeakable grace, God in a self-giving to men that was infinitely lavish. To express that Paul uses the word charis. Whether or not he coined it, as seems likely (some word had to be coined), it is certainly he that
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