The treatise of St. Bernard, abbat of Clairvaux, concerning grace and free will, addressed to William, abbat of St. Thiery
By: translated with an introduction, synopsis, and notes, by Watkin W. Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Watkin Wynn, 1859-1944, ed. and tr.
Series: Translations of Christian literature
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; The Macmillan Company
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Free will and determinism; Grace (Theology)
Notes: General editors: W. J. Sparrow-Simpson, D.D., W. K. Lowther Clarke, B.D.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Watkin Williams; title: Synopsis; title: The Treatise of St. Bernard Concerning Grace and Free Will.; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1 : That to the merit of a good work is needed, together with the grace of God, the consent of the free will; title: Chapter 2 : In what freedom of will consisteth; title: Chapter 3 : That there is a threefold freedom : that of nature, that of grace, and that of glory; title: Chapter 4 : What kind of freedom belongeth to the holy souls in their disembodied state : what kind belongeth to God, and what kind is common to all reasonable creatures; title: Chapter 5 : Whether freedom from misery, or freedom of counsel, is granted in this world; title: Chapter 6 : That grace is altogether necessary in order that we may will what is good; title: Chapter 7 : Whether the first man in Paradise was endowed with this threefold freedom, and how far his endowment was lost by sin; title: Chapter 8 : That free choice remaineth after sin hath entered in; title: Chapter 9 : That the image and the likeness of God, in which we were created, consist in a threefold freedom; title: Chapter 10 : That through Christ the likeness which properly belongeth to the divine image is restored in us; title: Chapter 11 : That neither grace, nor temptation, taketh away from freedom of choice; title: Chapter 12 : Whether one that, for fear of death or of other penalty, denieth the faith is to be excused from blame, or to be held destitute of free choice; title: Chapter 13 : That human merits are no other than divine gifts; title: Chapter 14 : What part is to be assigned to grace, and what to free choice, in the work of salvation