Author: T. A. Noble
The term “prevenient grace” is not in the Bible. Indeed, this whole way of speaking of different kinds of “graces”—“prevenient grace,” “saving grace,” “sanctifying grace”—is not the way the biblical writers speak of grace. Where then did this language and phraseology come from?
calls us in the gospel of His Son. And in and with the call comes the Holy Spirit who alone makes it possible for us to respond. That too is the prevenient, gracious action of God.
T. A. Noble is research professor of theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, and senior research fellow in theology at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester.
Holiness Today, September/October 2020
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