Brief history of Christian interpretation of sanctification: 1. Early church fathers (Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp) – though noting the grace of God, they emphasized a striving toward holiness. 2. Gnosticism – converts are perfect, set apart from the world. 3. Montanism – demanded separatism from unholy body of believers. 4. Clement of Alexandria – necessity for denial of world and bodily needs. 5. Pelagianism – holiness is result of self-willed moral effort. 6. Augustine – sanctification is God’s activity; not by human effort. 7. Bernard of Clairvaux – mystical personal piety by imitation of Jesus. 8. Peter Lombard – sanctifying grace by infusion of Spirit in believer. 9. Thomas Aquinas – no distinction between justification and sanctification; just infusion of God’s grace in man. 10. Council of Trent – grace inheres in soul of believer by Holy Spirit, and becomes permanent condition or attribute of believer. 11. Roman Catholic doctrine – misstated and overstated subjective implications of infused sanctifying grace, providing a boost of human ability toward perfectibility and divinization. 12. Reformers (Luther, Calvin, et al) – justification emphasized and separated from sanctification; insistence on absence of human merit. 13. Protestant doctrine – over-reacted and overstated objective implications of forensic, legal and extrinsic factors of justification and sanctification. 14. Pietists – reverted to moralistic behavioral standards of holy living, in reaction to epistemological emphasis on doctrine. 15. John Wesley – “entire sanctification,” perfect holiness possible in this life; necessity of “second blessing” experience; Holiness Movement. 16. Karl Barth – reemphasized subjective implications of Christocentric and ontological dynamic of holiness. Evangelical Protestants for the most part resisted; Catholic theologians recognized and appreciated.
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#1 · November 17, 2003, 11:21 am

Posted by: timv <timv@...>

The server that hosts our list has changed their list server software to
MimerDesk. Most things should be the same, but you can now register with
the site to read the list via a news interface instead of email. This
should be a big help to those with Outlook especially. The home page of the
list server is still the same, welovegod.org, but there is a new
interface. Make sure to register with the email address that you are
currently subscribed with. If you don't want to use the web site/news
interface you don't need to register. You will continue to get the list in
the form for which you are currently subscribed.

If you can't figure things out from the site, let me know. I have
posted instructions there in our download area at welovegod.org
on how to set up the news feed for Outlook.

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--------------- Text of forwarded message ---------------
>Delivered-To: mailing list moderator@welovegod.org
>From: Glen Stewart <root@welovegod.org>
>Reply-To: glen_stewart@welovegod.org
>To: moderator@welovegod.org
>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:49:46 -0500
>Subject: [Moderator] Transition Completed!!
>
>The visible switch to MimerDesk is complete.
>
>You may now tell your subscribers to come visit their new home in MimerDesk!
>
>The URL is welovegod.org. Tell them about these features:
> o read messages online if they prefer not getting Email
> o post messages to the group from the web Email tool
> o personal TODO list, calendar, address book, files, friends
> o group email, files, links, address book, reviews, calendar, news,
> voting, projects, and forums (chat is not working for now)
> o Easy visibility of all group members, with only the details YOU
> want
> to share with others visible.
>
>Glen

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