on a synergistic rather than solely gracious basis.11 But insofar as Reformed soteriology takes faith to be a gift of God, the objection sounds hollow.12 And this view of faith as a gift has Pauline support: “for Christ’s sake it was graciously given you … to believe in him” (Phil 1:29); “faith [comes] from hearing [or ‘what is heard’] and hearing [or ‘what is heard’] through the word of Christ” (Rom 10:17); “God has allotted to each [of you] an allotment of faith” (Rom 12:3).13 If we were to assign
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